Black privilege

Black privilege is a term for argued unfair societal privileges that benefit African Americans and non-American people of African origin in the Western world and former European colonies.

Definition

There are many argued examples of black privilege, as there are many countries, including former European colonies in Africa and the Caribbean, where black people are the overwhelming majority. Critics of black privilege believe that white people will become minorities almost everywhere. They believe that black people benefit from affirmative action quotas and other privileges in education and employment. The mainstream media rarely reports news with negative associations for non-Asian minorities, but is known for doing the opposite for news with positive associations, in what has been described by critics as race censorship.

A wide variety of organizations cater specifically to black people and promote their interests, and are supported by the ruling establishment for doing so. In a case of a double standard, organizations that specifically cater to white people are heavily condemned by left-wing critics, who consider black identity and pride to be a form of empowerment, but condemn white identity and pride to be a form of racism and xenophobia. They claim that pro-white ideologies such as white nationalism are the same thing as white supremacy, but they generally do not see pro-black ideologies as a form of black supremacy.

Black History Month is a major celebration in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, and other Western countries, none of which are native black homelands, but these countries shun their native populations by not celebrating a White History Month. The political left sees this as a positive thing, but this has been condemned by critics on the right.

Before elections, it is considered politically correct to appeal specifically to black voters, but not to white voters. Most fictional TV series and movies depict non-Asian minorities and Jews in a much more positive light than non-Jewish white people, also underrepresenting them as criminals when compared to real world crime statistics. The media is heavily biased regarding depictions of events such as colonialism and slavery, choosing instead to blame white Europeans entirely for slavery through their revisionist depictions of historical events and only focusing on the enslavement of black people instead of that of white people.

Black people have a much lower risk of being accused of racism than white people, even if the circumstances are similar, and can play the race card in order to explain various individual or group failures, while white people cannot. Black people have a less lenient treatment in the justice system, due to causes such as fears of being accused of scientific racism. However, they are both equally likely to be accused of antisemitism, while non-Muslim black people are just as likely to be accused of "Islamophobia", "homophobia" or "transphobia" as white people.

Black people do not have to endure white guilt and a movement promoting this.

"Black Studies" depicts black people positively, while "Whiteness studies" depicts white people negatively. Notice that black studies is not titled "Blackness studies". Racial diversity/sensitivity training depicts black people positively and white people negatively.

See also

• Anti-white
• Black supremacy
• Jewish supremacy
• White privilege
• Double standard