Costa Iswi wrote:
Well just to start off, white privilege is not a intrinsic thing to white people, and is generally a thing given to people who have light skin. (This is why it is possible for my 1/128th "black person" to have white privilege). In our society, "white people" have had an advantage and white families have had the ability to build up wealth of generations as well as art, and culture. Thus, when black people were "freed" in the 1800's they were not as "free" as a white persons. (They could not make the same financial choices). Now, if black people and white people were on the same foot since the start of America I doubt there would be "White Privilege." Let me now give a clear definition. White privilege is benefits given, whether subconsciously or not, to a "White Person." Some of these benefits include, being hired at a job just for having a white sounding name or appearance, (I can give links to studies of this), having people on T.V. who look like you, not being asked, "Where are you from? Oh Florida? No I meant what foreign country?" There are more benefits but I would recommended reading stuff around the internet there are good resources I could give you.
Now I am going to respectfully disagree with you, I don't think White privilege is as big a thing as you might think. Especially because there is a privilege for basically everything. White privilege, Black privilege, rich privilege, girl privilege, boy privilege, hell even your societal standing can give a privilege to some degree.
Also for the benefits you gave only one of them I can somewhat believe/is true which is the hiring one. However we can go right back around by saying many companies and universities hire/accept minorities or Black people to fill a certain quota to be considered "diverse" is that not also privilege? For the other ones you provided I'll refute them by going left to right on the list, there are many minorities and Black people on T.V. the only reason white people probably show up more is considering the fact that the US is 60% white so of course there's going to be more. I have literally never seen someone say this, it may just be because I'm a Gen Z and therefore haven't had enough time to see it but this seems more like an ignorance thing than a privilege thing, I mean i'm sure various white people who were born in the US have had this question before because of an accent, or other language they happen to speak. So these benefits you list don't really seem like much lol.