It is a myth. It used to exist, but times have changed. People just want something to complain about and if it also makes it out that their shortcomings are beyond their control, two bird with one stone.

America has become oversensitive in ALL aspects and it will only hurt us in the future if it keeps up.

This so much.  You my friend get it!

No grant or federal/state financial aid can ever help someone overcome a torn up heart and mental health caused by fractured families. I'm white and I didn't get the same scholarship opportunities as minorities do going to college, yet I have a wife and both of our families that we come from are healthy and whole and we both graduated from college and now have successful careers. Your family is far more important on your future than any kind of financial aid from the government is.

Classism

That's the root of a lot of problems. When you're born low, you tend to remain there because of lack of education, opportunity, and a solid family structure. Thanks to our past of slavery and Jim Crowe laws, Blacks in this country basically all started out in a low class, and it's been proven time and time again that succeeding generations tend to move laterally instead of up. The disparity is also more blatant because of race, which only makes matters worse and creates more divisive attitudes for everyone.

White people have certainly "grown up" over the past few hundreds of years, as a whole. But there is white privelege in the sense that we all come from, again for the most part, healthy and whole family structures and have our head in the right place, where as many African Americans, due to their families being stripped apart for hundreds of years, do not have healthy and whole families and have their heads stuck in survival mode (committing crimes and then blaming others, for example). Many of them can't help it because it's based on conditioning over hundreds of years. There are only two options going forward: 1) Kill all African Americans (a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE way forward that I DON'T agree with) or 2) Work our butts off in society to help restore their cultural health.

What we are currently doing (white people "giving up" on blacks and blacks nonstop blaming whites) isn't working, so we obviously need to change our perception as a whole.

Lol, these political the threads keep getting worse and worse. The gaming crowd is not the most politically inclined, but I find it hard to believe that people can't take the time to just do the research. White males are paid more per hour than their female and minority counterparts for the same work (with equivalent qualifications). It's not politics, it's statistics.

Why people have to bring personal opinion and anecdote into the equation, rather than just fix the issue, I can only speculate. Fear based insecurity that our (I'm a white male) dominance of society is in decline?

I won't get too deep into this debate simply because nothing will change. However, I'll add this. A friend and I once experimented with resumes and put names like "Allen Simpson", Kaitlin Graham, "Jabari Mohammed", and "Lashonda Johnson" on the same resumes. Nothing was changed on the resumes save for the names, addresses, personal info, and contact info. We'd put some of the "whiter" sounding names with addresses from trailer parks and some of the more ethnic sounding names in some of the best communities in our area. We put all the same info on the resumes but put them in random order as to not make it so obvious. Lashonda and Jabari go nearly no calls back even though they'd attended top schools and graduated with honors. In fact, if I remember correctly each received 3 calls back from the over 50 resumes we sent out.

Now, when Allen and Kaitlin were put on the same resumes we were flooded with calls back. Nearly every business called us back and I was fielding calls quickly and so was she. We thought it was funny because we'd not really had anything planned to say when we'd actually gotten the calls back. Eventually we'd come up with the reply that we'd already found work and we no longer need to apply. Some of the businesses even went as far as to ask what we're being paid by our new jobs and would offer to beat it.

Ok, so even though Allen and Kaitlin may not be white and there's no way for a company to know that beforehand you have to think that names like Jabari and Lashonda are not called back for a reason. What's funny is that my friends (and even my wife, who's white and also says white privilege doesn't exist) always joke that I only get calls back from all the jobs I apply for because my name is Sheldon. My rebuttal is that this may be true but I still have to show up black and have a good interview. I do wonder if my mother had named me something more "black" would getting calls back from jobs be harder. Who knows...

I too find it odd that there's so much political talk on a video games site. And it seems to become more heated than the political sites I visit.

It exists. Brain structure being the biggest privilege.

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-European countries cut up Africa like a nice pie. Africa still sucks to this day.
-UK poops on India
-Spain takes a giant dump on central and South america. Mayans? Aztecs? Incans? Who are they?
-English come over to North America and take a big dump on the Aboriginals. Try to assimilate them into whiteness by putting them in residential schools, or push them to the bottom with treaties and reserves. Need proof that the Aboriginals got royally fucked here? Look at the Natives in British Columbia who did not sign a treaty, and compare them to the others.

Flash forward to 2015:
-We are a lot further ahead than we were back then, but it's strange pointing fingers elsewhere when we are the reason for almost every minority. We put them at the bottom at the first place lol. We have a privilege because we aren't an economic minority.

I'm not too sure about white privilege as a term to be used tbh but when I look at poverty within my own country (Canada), the stats are almost shocking. Aboriginals make up the majority of the prison population despite being about 5% of the total population. Poverty, homelessness, education level, literacy etc - the results all paint the same picture: you are better off being born into a white family than any other race. That's just the way it is, there is no possible way you can explain that away.