Ong, I get that you come from a poor background, and that so do many black people. I get that you don't blame the system for your role in your personal history from that poverty to your current circumstances.

It's just not the same for black people in the US. I can't speak to the UK, but if you were an American:

The difference would be that your parents never had to sit you down and explain to you that because of the color of your skin, you'd have to work twice as hard to get the same reward for your efforts.
The difference would be that if you apply for a bank loan, a rental, a job, etc. the color of your skin wouldn't work against you.
The difference would be that you probably had access to a better public school with better funding and better teachers.
The difference would be that when you get pulled over by police, you don't have to always wonder if this is where you die.
The difference would be you could - if you wanted - go for a jog without being nervous that a passing car wont pull in front of you and assholes jump out and perhaps kill you because of your skin color.


Yes, poverty affects white people, too. Yes, a lot of white people don't feel like they've received any privilege, or at least would sure as hell like to cash in on that privilege any moment now.

The thing is that what white people take for granted as "normal" is by and large only normal for whites.
That's the privilege.
I know you don't think any of that should be a privilege, but should just be normal, but the simple fact is that it's not normal, and only a privileged group get the luxury of even thinking it's normal.