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Saya said it really well, and I think you're seeing what I'm getting at.

The overt is harder to get away with, so the system has changed to be far more subtle. You mentioned Rosa Parks, but you haven't thought about who rides buses now as opposed to the 1950's. You mentioned Jim Crow laws, but you haven't thought about how white people don't typically chose to live in racially mixed neighborhoods or work in racially mixed environments, and so on. White privilege is a really bad argument that privilege is circumstantial thing. It's really something that can follow a person no matter where they go in the world and as far back as their white-centric history book wants to travel.

But don't be mistaken; discrimination doesn't need to be overt. I mean, fuck. Just the other day when I was at work, I was out with one of my co-workers while we were inspecting one of the units there to train. Him and I are both black, though I have a lighter skin tone, and everybody else was white. Someone from the unit asked if anybody had a lighter, and I gave him mine. When he came back from smoking, he tried to give it back to my co-worker because he honestly thought he was the one who let him borrow it.