I have said my piece, but as for being priviledged I guess it is all relative. I am almost sixty and have been working since I was 14. I thank God I had nice parents who gave a shit about me but beyond that I earned what you might call privildge.
Go to school, get a job, raise a family , come home. Pretty simple.
Eboue, you need to reread my post before you pull any more generalizations out of your backside.
Just wait for the civil proceedings unless you are i too big a hurry.
I'm not sure if this has been covered - but when he refers to privilege, he's referring to white privilege.
That's not anything to do with monetary income, class, status or anything similar.
It's the unspoken privileges that people from a non ethnic background enjoy, most of the time without realising these things.
So examples like he said - being stopped and searched, frisked, being pulled over etc.
It's pretty much being able to live your life without having to worry about how the colour of your skin may affect the people around you in any given situation.
I've been raised throughout my life that I have to be more aware and more cautious in certain situations simply because of the colour of my skin, people will have a preconceived idea about what kind of character I am.
If i'm out shopping, I always make sure that anything I pick up I keep in plain sight of both cameras and the view of employees so it doesn't look like i'm stealing - otherwise I risk being followed by security.
My brother was raised not to wear certain items of clothing incase he looked like a "criminal" or "thuggish"
Whenever I've been in formal situations I don't wear my hair in it's natural state incase it makes people uncomfortable, or it looks "ragged"
I could go on.
It sounds ridiculous to explain if you haven't had to live your life with these 'rules' if you will. But equally that just demonstrates the power of white privilege even more.