Originally Posted by
Mellrod
White privilege is being able to have the benefit of the doubt in most situations, being treated like an equal, being considered """"normal"""", easily receiving common decency, good service, and acceptance in social situations, not having the cops called on you for so much as breathing while any other skin color, not being quickly stereotyped on all manner of subjects, going wherever you want without fear of racist communities, not having to watch the way you talk/dress/posture as you go about your daily life, existing as part of the demographic majority in a society full of systemic corruption against the minority, etc. I could go on. White privilege is not thinking it/racism exists, or just being able to live a hapless normal life without worrying about any of the above, due to having never personally experienced the other side.
White privilege is not having society treat you like a second-rate citizen.
Nothing about that has anything to due with whites "being better", because skin color is a ridiculous and unfair way to determine value and racism is always inherently morally wrong. It has to do with the differences in life that many generations of racial bias, prejudice, and systemic corruption has created. For example, There was recently of a black foster child who had the cops called on him by a neighbor when he knocked on the door of his white foster parents. The cops pepper sprayed that kid. Wouldn't have happened if he was white.
People can believe in equality, sure, but that doesn't mean they actually practice what they preach, let's be real here. Whether consciously or unconsciously, everyone is biased, prejudiced, racist, etc in some way or another.