Some good insights in this WSJ guest column by Sen. Jim Webb (D, Va.). Some factoids that I wasn't aware of too. (Only 5% of Southerners owned slaves at the time of the Civil War? I knew the super-wealthy owned a majority, but didn't realize it was that severe).
I'll withhold the obligatory (but in jest!) anti-Irish Protestant comments that the article raises in my mind though.
(Despite my Irish Catholic heritage, one of my best friends is Orange Irish...I have yet to figure out why I haven't had him killed yet...)
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Interesting piece. I think the headline does a bit too much -- whites still do far better as a whole than blacks in this country, at least enough so to say their privilege isn't a "myth" -- but the article does make good points.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious, though: what programs is he talking about when he refers to "many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations"?
Cause, you know, I want a piece of those.