The degree at which whites are privileged over blacks in this day and age is vastly different than it was 1-2 generations ago.

I live in Alabama....irony. But it's flatly unheard of to pass up an educated black man for a high ranking position in a professional field, as several companies want to meet a certain race based quota.

As a white man: I went to a public school. I flipped pizza's to pay my way through college for a total of 5 years. I turned a dead-end job into a supervisory role, and I am just now passing off living in a middle-class position.

When I combine my efforts with the potential race-based quota hiring in my area, I think it would be *easier* to get through my professional life as a black man. There was absolutely nothing in my life which would have been inaccessible due to my skin color.

Perhaps things are different in large cities, I'm open to that fact. As literally 50% of my employees are black, I refuse to think that I've led a bunch of white individuals to privilege. When I look around my company, I see similar thought processes. Granted, we hire the best fit for the position, and are not trying to fill a certain race based quota.

I will say something, again, which will probably met with some skepticism on this forum:
There are alot of elements of black culture which are counter productive. I believe Rap Music sets African Americans back 50 years. I find absolutely no educational merit or societal furtherance in "Making it rain", "**cking the police", or being caught "riding dirty", all the while flagrantly abusing the word "nigger" in jest, which carries a gruesome history. In fact, I'd even dare to make the statement that individuals who partake in such "Poetry" to be part of the problem.