Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[paulpablo]

It was a specific person I was asking about, the man who was beaten to death by police. I'm not asking where it was I'm saying I don't think he was privileged by any definition of privilege relating to any sort of description.

Which is where it all went south, frankly...since you aren;t addressing the subject as it is, you're trying to slice and dice to find a single, specific, favorable example.  You still failed. 

I'm asking you in what way was he advantaged because of his race and your reply is that because after he was beaten to death he enjoyed the privilege of the officers being charged before they were aquitted which I replied that it doesn't just happen to white people that way because it also happened to Freddie Grey.

Will you now argue that here, in the US, a white person and a black person can -expect- the same treatment in that regard..or that black people are afforded this dignity at the same rate as whites?  Because if you won't..this objection is DOA.

White privilege by it's definition is something that defines all white people as being privileged by default, this is what you said previously.  That's what I mean by tarring all white people.
Which relates back to white people who live in poverty who are killed by police or killed by black people or just live unfortunate lives in general.  I don't think it's accurate to say their lives are still better for being white.

Except that it is accurate, it is quantifiable, and it has been demonstrated.  All things being equal..it's better to be white...all things are not equal...and it's -still- better to be white.  That's how things play out here, in the US.  Privilege is relative, the man in the cage who gets beaten less often than the other men in the cage is still privileged, even though he's in a cage.  It's not about whether or not a given person  is in the cage with "the rest of them", but how he can expect to be treated while there.  That's ignoring the fact that one race, in particular, can expect to avoid the cage in the first place...relative to the other.

Do you understand?

 
And the race most likely to avoid being in the cage at all are Asians, not white people.