Reply #29: where is this white power?

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The system was created by powerful people to confer advantages upon the powerful. Most of those powerful people happened to be white. Certainly there are plenty of powerful people today who are not white males.
Except at the very top, most white males have been working their asses off as wage-slaves trying to avoid either absolute poverty or being worked to death.
Logically just because some white males have the power does not mean that all white males do.
I had two black co-workers tell me that I needed to experience life as a black man, and my reply was that they should experience it as a poor white person. In fact I have read "Black Like Me" and seen the movie "Soul Man". As far as "advantages" conferred upon whites - you might say that whites get justice and others don't, maybe in lots of cases they get mercy, or the benefit of the doubt. I think that justice and mercy and a good job and educational opportunities should be available for all.