White privilege exists

My opponent's main counterargument is that the black community is primarily affected by negative aspects of the justice system (police brutality, longer sentences due to crime history, ect.) because they tend to live in higher crime areas. This is true because in fact, poorer white people are more widely dispersed, while poorer black people are ghettoized, as in more concentrated in predominately black areas. What my opponent fails to take into account, however, is that this still constitutes white privilege. A black child born into a crime ridden area is going to have a lot more challenges. An argument one could make is that this is a rememant of discrimination from the era prior to the civil rights movement. As a result of intense discrimination after slavery and up to the end of segregation, black people had a much harder time being economically successful, leading to the eventual creation of the projects, which is a large part of why poor black people are historically more concentrated into an area than poorer whites. Also, my opponent mentions that black people have advantages such as scholarships and other affirmative action, and cites their existence as an arguments against the existence of white privilege. However, these programs were created because white privilege does exist, and it is harder for many black young people to get out of these crime ridden neighborhoods, and it is easier for white people to succeed than black people. This disparity in location and socioeconomic challenge affects young people early on and for the rest of there lives, as black youth are disproportionately affected by the school-to-prison pipeline. And it is not because black youth are just worse behaved, as emotionally and mentally disabled black children are also disproportionately affected, also the theory that race has any natural affect on behavior independent of conditioning by the society they live in, is solidly disproven because it simply is not in line with any established modern science that is not the product of 1860's racist, biased scientific study. My opponent also says that their is more white people running government because their is more white people in the country. This is true and while that is not how our democracy works which is by election, not demographic, it is not a bad thing for government to be proportionally representative. However, it is still the case that in the case of such proportional representation, white people are still setting the system. And while im not advocating for disproportionate representation neccissarily, it is necessary that government and the people be conscious of this advantage, which is not the case. My opponents main issue is that they look toward the surface of what is happening in the country, without looking at underlying historically supported causes of these currant circumstances. And I vehemately disagree with my opponents use of the term "conspiracy theory." I do not support its existence as a conspiracy, but as a social phenomenon the cause of which is the fault of no modern day individual, save for perhaps the ones comfortable to live in blissful ignorance of the phenomenon because they are privileged enough to be able to ignore something that genuinely affect the lives of people every day of their lives, in big ways and small ways. To acknowledge the existence of white privilege is not to say that white individuals do not struggle or can never be economically worse off, but that a of a black individual and white individual of the same economic level and in the same demographic in all other aspects but race (age, sex, ect.), the black individual will more often have a more difficult tome moving up the socioeconomic ladder. I suggest you research the work of Jane Elliot, particularly this video: http://youtu.be... and perhaps this may also interest you: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7i60GuNRg Here is the link from my last argument: http://m.huffpost.com... http://www.tolerance.org...