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Being privileged doesn't mean one's life has no hardship. There are plenty of poor, white men, and Oprah Winfrey is a billionaire.

The way to think about it is take one of those poor white men and imagine he is black while the other things (wealth, schooling, ___location, etc) remain constant. While anything might happen, statistically that person's outcome would be worse as a black poor man than as a white poor man.




Yeah but that isn't because of race. Replacing the race doesn't work with asian men nor black men that come from africa as 0th gen/1st gen immigrants.

This is uniquely an african american problem suggesting alternative reasoning (culture, education/values etc).




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