I'm currently reading "Promises Betrayed: Waking up from the American Dream" by Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist. The reviews on this page are instructive, because they show how presumably "educated" people can be in denial of white privilege.
The reviewer "Mr. Truth" is especially blatant in his denial: "He describes a school in DC where the building is falling apart and never mentions that he is probably only writing about the school in failing condition because most or all of it's[sic] students and faculty are african-american! I think this particular school he wrote about is untypical[sic] of the rest of the USA ... I think the school Herbert wrote was just an untypical[sic] example of bad faculty or maybe bad city management on a higher level.
Wake up and smell the mocha, my friend. The school would be in much better condition if the school were primarily white. And don't go citing some stat about how some poor white folk in Appalachia have a horrible school system. Because obviously, they do. I'd bet even in the poorest parts of the country, the whites send their kids to one school and the blacks to another, and that there are still disparities there.
