All that anyone wanted to know was how fast could I type. There wasn't a thing that I could do except to look for work with lower paying social service agencies. I can still remember how angry and how helpless I felt. Nor were any of the men I knew. Nevertheless, by virtue of being born male, they enjoyed a significant privilege that was withheld from me, the opportunity to be considered for higher paying jobs that offered a better future.
Racism works the same way.
We're all caught in a system that treats Blacks differently and in ways that are very hard to change. It's still more difficult for black people to buy or sell a home, or get a loan-from either a private or a government agency. We know that black drivers are stopped more often in some places, that black youth are more likely than white youth to be stopped and searched by police. Just this week the NYPD began an initiative to force taxi drivers to pick up black customers, a problem that's been around for a long time. History is still taught from a white bias, religious images still tend to suggest that God and other biblical figures were white.