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> I'm curious what privileges you perceive, or know to be true, for non-minorities.

* Innocent until proven guilty (See driving while black)

* Citizenship is rarely, if ever, questioned

* Friendly relationship with Law Enforcement/Authority

* Better health care[1]

1: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/black-kids-get-les...

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* Less likely to be assumed a criminal, drug user, or other lower ranking member of society

* Less likely to die of curable diseases

* Lesser prison sentences for the same crimes committed by minorities.

* Less likely to get passed over for a job interview

* Easier time dating

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* raise interest rates

* Until recently be a credible candidate for president of the us

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* Have a speech impediment and not be held back, even from high office like president of the us.

(I have rebutted arguments that "It isn't racist to discriminate against blacks for having the black accent because it just proves they are uneducated and inarticulate" by saying "George W. Bush. If articulate speech is really the criteria, how did he ever get to be president? And if we can hire an inarticulate white guy but not an inarticulate black guy, then something in there is still racist somehow, no?")