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And communities with higher poverty, fewer jobs, and less infrastructure are going to have higher crime, regardless of race.

Crime is a problem within communities.

Privilege, in the social justice context, is an advantage or a set of advantages that you have that others do not.

The definition of privilege is in reality much simpler than a lot of social justice discussions would have you believe.

But it upsets us because it exists, not because we talk about it. As long as racism exists to ruin the lives of countless people of color, it should be something that upsets us.

Racial oppression should always be an emotional topic to discuss.

The ultimate goal of racism was the profit and comfort of the white race, specifically, of rich white men. This was never motivated by hatred of people of color, and the goal was never in and of itself simply the subjugation of people of color.

We have to remember that racism was designed to support an economic and social system for those at the very top.

Racism is any prejudice against someone because of their race, when those views are reinforced by systems of power.

They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations. Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. This also means that just because something is about race, doesn’t mean that white people can’t be similarly impacted by it and it doesn’t mean that the experience of white people negatively impacted is invalidated by acknowledging that people of color are disproportionately impacted. just because something is about race, doesn’t mean it’s only about race.And racial oppression will interact with many other privileges and disadvantages to produce a myriad of effects. Racial oppression is a broad and cumulative force, it is not a system that puts all its eggs in one basket.Overview: A powerful book that bring together many disparate ideas into a coherent narrative