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53298, Money only helps but so much.
Posted by ChuckNeal, Thu Jun-30-05 01:45 PM
I'm a young black man who came from an upper middle class family, and currently attends law school. Yet I still get pulled over by the cops for bullshit, still get those looks from white passers-by, still get talked down to as if I barely can read, and still dealt w/ overt racism while growing up (getting in fights w/ other whites about being called nigger). I've seen all that first hand, as well as friends of mine in the same boat, and in no way did our bank accounts save us from these experiences. White people still have the white privilege, but now they have to choose to accept it instead of it being thrust upon them.