> Obviously white people are extremely privileged and also have a different culture.

Why is this obviously? It's like /you've/ never lived in America, not outside of some coastal city. Go to anywhere in the Midwest or Southeast and tell me that white people are privileged in some unique way. It's a poverty problem and a problem of cultural priorities, not about race.

It is a poverty problem, and black people are much more likely to be in poverty. That doesn't mean that white people can't also be in poverty.

A lot of people just don't understand what privilege is. Who has more upward mobility - an impoverished black person, or an impoverished white person? Who is more likely to face systemic factors that influence poverty and outcomes - black people or white people?

And before I hear "well not everything is about race!!1!" Uh, the US has a long history of systemic racism that does continue to this day.

Obviously if you just integrated a few decades ago you're not going to just magically have equal outcomes. People don't move like that, systems are sticky, and the US isn't evenly distributed.

And, of course, race is correlated tightly with culture and with average income and levels of poverty.

No, you can't just ignore race. Well you can, if that's easier for you, but it's dishonest and incomplete.

And, because I know it's coming: yes I'm white, no I don't have white guilt, I just think about the world we live in. Its easy not to think about things. I prefer thinking about things.