http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/07/white_privilege_extends_to_the_poor.html I only recently became aware of theroot.com and follow them of Facebook. I find many of their articles to be quite informative. I lifted this article wholesale from their page, it is not mine in any way...although it will feature in my subsequent discussions as I recently had a interesting spontaneous discussion-cum-debate-cum-discussion on this very subject [ it was under way when I happened on them, Idk how it started ] with a group of strangers spanning the range of racial gender and social classes. A 25-year study of blacks and whites in Baltimore finds that income status can be an equalizer, but race does make a difference. BY: TERESA WILTZ Posted: July 10 2014 3:00 AM Boarded up row houses in east Baltimore, three blocks north of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dec. 2, 2003 ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES F rom birth, practically, we’re told—
