White Privilege Exists

I define white privilege more broadly than Con: white privilege is the assertion that, on average, white Americans have better social and economic status than nonwhite Americans. If you select a random white, they probably have a better life than a random nonwhite.Con's definition restricts privilege to the point of nonexistence. Con's definition requires that two individuals have sociopolitical and economic circumstances. (I group political and social, as measuring political status seems impossible.) If two people have equal sociopolitical and economic circumstances, then their lives are (roughly) equally privileged.Instead, we must hold one status constant: examine two individuals, one white and one nonwhite, with roughly equivalent sociopolitical (or economic) background, and determine if they have significantly different economic (or sociopolitical) status. If Con denies this definition, I ask them to explain how two persons with equal economic and social status could be evaluated in terms of privilege.Moreover, this debate isn't about whether whites or blacks are responsible for white privilege -- only over its existence.White privilege has two main components: economic and social. Let's open with economics:ECONOMICSThe average white has more economic clout:* INCOME: The median white has an income of $57k, compared to $39k for Hispanics and $33k for blacks. Or: whites average 50% more income. [BI]* POVERTY: 9% of whites live in poverty, compared to 24% of blacks and 21% of Hispanics. Or: whites average 2x less poverty. [KFF]* WEALTH: The median white has $141k in assets, compared to $13k for Hispanics and $11k for blacks. Or: whites average 10 times more wealth. [CNN]This unequal wealth is amplified by institutional and community failures:* HOUSING: Black families making $100,000 typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making $30,000. This is largely due to past racist federal & local housing policies. This forces nonwhites to live in worse neighborhoods, with worse health & schools & communities, that prevent them from getting ahead. [Atlantic]* HIGH SCHOOL: 87% of whites graduate high school, compared to 73% of blacks and 76% of Hispanics. [NCES] This forces nonwhites to pursue less lucrative careers and face higher unemployment.* COLLEGE: 47% of whites had college degrees, compared to 33% of African Americans and 23% of Hispanics. [HR] This forces nonwhites to pursue less lucrative careers and face higher unemployment.* EMPLOYMENT: When equivalent resumes were sent to the same employers, black college graduates had about the same callback rate as white college graduates who were also felons. Or: comparably-qualified black noncriminals and white criminals have an equal playing field. [SP]* UNEMPLOYMENT: 4.3% of whites are unemployed, compared to 8.1% of blacks and 5.9% of Hispanics. [BLS] Or: whites are 40% less likely to be unemployed than nonwhites.These gaps are persistent. Black income was 55.3% of white income in 1967, two years after LBJ enacted laws against literal Jim Crow segregation. Black income was 60.7% of white income in 2014. The average white has substantial advantages over the average nonwhite. Whites start higher up on the economic ladder. Whites also have an easier time climbing the ladder. Whites are thus doubly privileged.SOCIALThere's much more racism against nonwhites than against whites. Racism against blacks more often comes from positions of power -- eg, racist federal redlining [Atlantic] or Rep. King [Twitter] -- than does bigotry against whites.This racism is powerful: Online racism has a strong correlation with black mortality rates [Conf]. And the already weak black health status is worsened by racism, which increases disease burden among blacks compared to equivalent socioeconomic-status whites [UMich]. Racism is literally killing blacks.In short: racial bigotry leans heavily against nonwhites.REFERENCES[BI] businessinsider.com/heres-median-income-in-the-us-by-race-2013-9[KFF] kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D[CNN] money.cnn.com/2016/01/25/news/economy/racial-wealth-gap/[Atlantic] theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/[NCES] nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_coi.asp[HR] hechingerreport.org/25368-2/[SP] thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/04/03/race-criminal-background-and-employment/[BLS] www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpsee_e16.htm[Twitter] twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/840980755236999169[Conf] paa.confex.com/paa/2016/mediafile/ExtendedAbstract/Paper9214/Racism%20and%20Black%20Life%20Expectancy%20SRE.pdf[UMich] deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/71908/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08114.x.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y