This post struck me as odd, at the very least:
dballance (4,962 posts)
3. I have to agree with you whole heartedly.
I'm a white male who grew up in the South during the dawn of desegregation.
I'm quite certain I am and have been privileged and got passes on things due to the fact I'm a white male. I know that because I showed up in court as a white male and had the ability to show up in a suit and tie I was treated differently than people who were of color and couldn't afford a suit and tie. Seriously, the judge confused me with a lawyer and didn't recognize me as a defendant because I had on a suit and tie.
I got treated white-glove as opposed to the people who were of color and didn't have the finances I had at the time.
In the first place, why was he in court in the first place? Traffic, domestic violence, general DUmbassiness?
IF you are a WHITE MALE (and I use that term loosely), how the hell else WOULD you have "shown up"? In blackface?
How would you know "people of color" wouldn't have/couldn't afford a suit/tie? EVERYBODY I know has "church/funeral" clothes (ie., a "suit and tie"), regardless of how poor you are. Many may have came from Goodwill or the Salvation Army, but EVERYBODY had at least one!
IF he really wanted to test his "white male" theory, he should have showed up in court wearing jeans and a tee shirt, and see how far his "white privilege" would have gotten him. Showing up like that in SF MAY have the judge mistake you for a lawyer, but not in the South.