ShadowStar42 said:
The fact is, even if you were born on the same day, in the same hospital next door to a child who was a minority you have benefited from bring white. Even if we put aside all of the social advantages of being white in America (which are numerous) you had a better chance of finding a job, are more likely to get promoted, may get payed more for the same work, and enjoy a longer life expectancy.
These "facts" are an issue of causation without correlation. When examined, life expectancy in America more often than not falls into economic categories than race and simply affects more blacks because more blacks are poor. I'm not denying that there is a serious issue in America that ensures poor people go to poor schools that ultimately fail them, simply that poor does not equal black and black does not equal poor(substitute any minority for black if you will). But consider this:
Black women live 76.1 years. White men live 75.4 years. In fact, there is no group of women in the states that will be outlived by any group of men, is this sexism?
Got my numbers from here, a little out of date. http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20050228/us-life-expectancy-best-ever-says-cdc
Well it could be, considering that Despite an already longer and healthier life span, Congress and the President, between 1970 and the present, have passed over 70 different medical programs, research projects and treatment initiatives, at costs exceeding $100 Billion dollars, which are specific for women and girls, yet completely and systematically rejected and ignored any calls to do the same for men. In fact even when there is overlap men are often denied treatment, despite HPV causing cancers in both men and women and at similar rates the vaccine, that has been shown to be effective, it is only administered to girls some countries allow men to pay, most will not provide this potentially life saving vaccine. Men with breast cancer have frequently been denied coverage to programs for low income and the first successful man to apply, (this guy http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44065422/#.TtL9BHpml7s) happened to BE black when white men were denied.
The same goes for the wage gap, women DO make $0.75 on the dollar BUT this is due to a number of factors For example on average full time women work fewer hours than full time men:
(from a study done by the Manhattan Institute)
The second being that men make up 97% of workplace fatalities.
once you eliminate these factors the "wage gap" is drastically reduced and sometimes goes in the other direction meaning it isn't a matter of gender so much as the hours you work and what you do.
As for better chances of finding a job, up until recently, the us government had been using ITS assets to provide minorities with jobs, consider how the recession and cuts to government services like the post office have affected the black community. It isn't that the recession is racist, its that the government has been propping them up and can't continue to do so.
You are making a lot of bold statements that you cant back up with anything substantial. Most privilege is circumstantial and effects small groups rather than anything as universal as a race or a sex and quite frankly people pushing views otherwise have been trying to do some pretty horrible things around the globe.
