White Privilege cannot be used as an excuse. The notion that the circumstantial failings of a minority are due to an unseen privilege owned only by white people detracts from all decisions white people have or can make. If the failure of a coloured person is only due to how society has treated them and not any of their personal decisions it means the success of white people is attributed to the system also. If a white person gets excellence in a certain subject and a coloured person doesn’t white privilege states that it was their skin colour that got them their grade, not the amount of study they did. As a rule, the main problem that I see with the concept of white privilege is that it is generally only brought up when bad things happen to people of colour. White privilege is never brought up when a coloured person aces a test but only when they fail one. Before claiming how much privilege has affected anybody’s outcome it is important to analyse other potential causes and determine their potential influence on the outcome. For example, I believe that it is a lot more likely that a person will get a job over another because of the quality of their CV and job interview rather than their race. If the decision is because of the race of the person then that is racist, it should not be a privilege for people not be racist towards you.
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