White privilege exists

I'm just going to focus on negation just as I would any conspiracy theory. Focus on that definition I provided again for a moment. "White privilege (or white skin privilege) is a term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is commonly experienced by the non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances." The key thing to remember is the bolded part. If a statistical anomaly can be explained by other factors than race such as economic factors than it can't be considered white privilege. "1) 20% of white people and 10% of black/Latino(a) people use drugs like cocaine, but minorities suffer the vast majority of legal consequences, according to the Huffington Post." I think my opponent should offer links to articles that can be found online. A problem with tracking down this article is that huffington post literally has hundreds of thousands of articles. We actually don't know the percentage of people who do drugs in any race. The difference in conviction rates for non whites can be explained by a more extensive criminal history. A repeat offender is likely to receive harsher punishments than a first time offender as explained by the following article. "minorities involved in the urban drug trade are more likely to have more extensive arrest records than suburban dealers and users, which can lead to longer sentences, Olson said." http://articles.chicagotribune.com... A black person and white person facing a judge with a similar arrest record is likely to have similar results in sentencing. Black people are also more likely to be arrested initially not because of the color of their skin but because they live in a high crime area where drug dealing is more likely to be open and police as a result of crime statistics are also likely to patrol those areas more. From the same article: "I don't think it's necessarily a policy of the police department to do that. I think it's just an outcome of where they put their resources." "The difference in police deployments means minorities involved in the urban drug trade are more likely to have more extensive arrest records than suburban dealers and users, which can lead to longer sentences, Olson said." "The divide stems in part from intense police activity in high-crime urban areas, where sales take place in open-air drug markets, making it easier to arrest dealers and buyers, said David Olson, chairman of Loyola University Chicago's criminal justice department." If you're a white person living in a high crime area, selling your drugs on the street instead of in the privacy of your own home than you're likely to face the same things. By the same token if a black person is living a low crime area and dealing drugs in a discreet manner, he isn't very likely to be targeted by police. This doesn't qualify as white privilege because factors outside of race that would effect whites equally in the same settings are the cause of statistical differences. It would be silly to ask cops to stop patrolling high crime areas as much, to stop arresting people when their crime is extremely obvious and for judges to be softer on repeat offenders. "it is more common for government to order racial profiling of black people than of whites, and stop and frisk primarily affects minorities as well as police brutality/excessive force. Stop and frisk is more likely to effect blacks because they are more likely to live in high crime areas and other factors exit as well. I really need to see your stats on racial profiling. I see nothing other than a bare assertion to claim that it occurs at a relevant frequency or even at all. Police brutality is likely to be a result of more frequent interactions with police for the reasons previously stated. I'd also like to see some numbers on this. I suspect it's just something that seems to be true due to media coverage cherry picking the stories they use. "There are no prominent hate groups against white people, there are against minorities. White people set the justice system, laws and governance. Bare assertion and not rue none the less. The black Panthers are a racist organization in my opinion. Plus this leaves out some of the special advantages blacks get such as special scholarship programs, favoritism when applying for a job with equal qualifications to a white (affirmative action, quotas etc.) and many other social programs specifically targeting them. This is a democracy so obviously the largest racial group will have the biggest say in government. To see if there is white privilege, we need to see if these laws are applied evenly across the board in a manner that doesn't consider race, and that's precisely what we see. There are certain groups overly represented in government such as Jewish people but that's a result of them choosing a different path that is more effective at getting them there and not part of any sort of privilege. Back to my opponent.