white privilege is a thing

White people are not oppressing blacks. You talk about slavery, and that being evidence for white oppression of blacks. Only 1.4% of white Americans owned black slaves. White Americans also played a huge role in ending slavery. After slavery ended, many whites helped with the civil rights movement. The first article shows that a classism exists in the education system, not racism. The same problems exist among poor whites. A lot of the info in that article is about how black families do less to help their kids in school, reading to them less and so on. This is not the fault of white people. White people are not forcing black people not to read to their children and whites are not forcing black people to have lower expectations. The article also talks about book characters being mostly white.I think diversity in childrens books is important, but I do not agree that this responsibility should be put on all white people. People have a right to put whatever characters they want in their own books. If you want more black characters write them in your own books. The same goes with black teachers. If you're black and you want to be a teacher great! and if you dont its not anyone elses fault. The article also mentions how black students are more likely to be suspended and expelled. Maybe this is because they are more likely to act up than white students. They are more likely to be arrested because they are more likely to commit crimes. This article later talks about college. With affirmative action black students who are less qualified are let in over white peers who are more qualified. The reason fewer blacks in college graduate is because they are more likely to have gotten in on affirmative action and therefor were less qualified to begin with. http://dailysignal.com... The second article shows the unfairness between two cases only. Black people are only given longer prison sentences because of passed convictions. African American sell and use drugs at higher rates than whites according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. Black people are more likely to go to prison because they are more likely to commit crimes. There is no epidemic of police killing black men. Black men are more likely to commit violent crimes and therefor more likely to have violent encounters with police. Only 20 unarmed black men are killed by police unjustifiably a year. I should also mention that black police men have killed white people but those cases got less attention because they didn't fit the narrative. http://www.foxnews.com... Attacks against police, especially white police have been happening a lot recently. In Dallas and Tennessee white police were specifically targeted. http://www.cbsnews.com... There have also been hate crimes against white non police. http://www.dailymail.co.uk... Did these hate crime victims have white privilege? With all thats going on these types of attacks are bound to happen again. In fact More white people are killed by black people than black people are killed by white cops a year. Saying all white people are oppressing black people is like saying all Muslims are terrorists or all black people are thugs. It does not take into account the white individuals who don't fit that narrative.