Is White Privilege Real? | Man on the Street

What's up guys, this is Wilby with PragerU and welcome to beautiful Florida. Today we're talking to people about white privilege and whether or not they think it's real. Let's do it. And guys, before we get started, make sure you subscribe and hit that bell button so that you never miss a new video here on YouTube. So you heard of white privilege before? Yes I have. Yeah, you think white privilege is a pretty real, significant thing? Yeah, I think it's definitely real. Uh, yes, I definitely think there is discrimination in society now. I mean like some, there's like some stuff that I look at and it makes it seem like it's legit. I don't know though. I mean you just think about everything as a whole and then society and just different ways, different situations play out for different people. Compare the two situations, it's pretty obvious, there's no denying it. Just throughout like even housing, education, um, it's everywhere. I mean I think there are some things that some minorities may not have, like certain resources they wouldn't always have access to. What about white people that don't have those resources too? That also happens, but minorities, it probably might be more common than white people. Why would you say that? Different statistics that I've looked at and sources. Cool. I mean there's absolutely things that like you get advantages with if you're white, but like as far as affirmative action, like institutional, there's such massive advantages you get when it comes to non-white privilege. I think there are certain instances of like black privilege as well. To an extent, yeah. Certain situations, yeah. I agree. I got a 33 on my ACT. If I went to, you know, Stanford with that and I was a Native American, I would be getting a full-ride scholarship right now, but you know. They don't have like the straight white male scholarships that you have for all the other minorities and everything. I think Mark Cuban tried to come up with one of those and people called him racist for that. Do you think that like me as a white guy, I have more privileges than you as a Latina? I've never experienced any like disadvantages really, personally, so. That's a good thing. It's like a lot of people will talk about white privilege as if it's like a really big deal, but then haven't actually experienced any instances of it. What resources do you think minorities don't have that white people have? Like certain access to stuff like laptops and school and stuff. Alex, you're Mexican. Do you have a laptop? I do. Your family have a laptop? They do. What do you think about the concept of white privilege? I think it's kind of ridiculous, to be completely honest with you. I don't think it makes any sense. We're all aware that like there's absolutely been oppression in like the last 50 years and there's still oppression today. Like there's no doubt that there's still oppression today, but the term white privilege is used broadly for like an incredible amount of things that don't necessarily apply. There's a million different things between the average white person and the average black, Latino, Hispanic, whatever, insert race here, person, other than the color of their skin. So you have to take those factors into account as well. It depends on the background where you come up and raised from and just, you know, your walk through life, different people you meet, different opportunities you have that I may not have, different opportunities I may not have that you, I may have that you may not, you know. It's just blatantly racist if you ask me to look at a person and say, the only reason where you got where you at is because you were born a certain way. It's more about what you can do and less about what your predisposition should allow you to do. And that's, I think, the most important thing for people to recognize is, yeah, there are white privileges, but there's also Asian American privileges. There's also black privileges. But more importantly, it's socioeconomic privileges. Thanks for watching, everybody. If you liked this video, share it with your friends. Comment your thoughts down below. Follow me and PragerU on social media. Remember to text the word PragerU to 64600 so you never miss a video, and we'll see you guys in the next one. Peace. What's up, guys? Thank you so much for watching this video. PragerU is a 501c3 organization. Help us keep our videos free by making a tax-deductible donation today. I'd really appreciate your support.