Sigh. I'm not attempting to invalidate your opinion. I'm simply trying to have a civl discussion about it.

But I highlighted the original quote for a reason.

"If you’re a white person living in an impoverished community with a lack of education and lack of resources, you’re not going to be able to land a well-paying, respectable job just because you’re white."

And that's totally true. Completely agree.

But if you're a black person living in an impoverished community with a lack of education and lack of resources... and you go up against the aforementioned white person for a similar job... who will get it?

Circumstances differ, of course, and it probably depends greatly on who's doing the hiring.

But if the odds are higher that the job goes to the white individual... then that's an indication the "privilege" still exists. Or, contrarily, if the job goes to the person of color because they have less power and less ability to push back against abuse... then the "privilege" still exists.

Just food for thought.

Also completely agree, by the way, that education is the silver bullet. The problem there, of course, is that one usually needs to be able to educate themself.

Because in an impoverished environment the system isn't going to do it for you.