Define disparity between black and white success

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Question: We had a chance to watch a moving lecture delivered by Tim Wise. I have also posted additional information regarding Privilege. After reviewing the posted materials and reflecting on Tim WIse's lecture, prepare a one page response to the following discussion prompt...

Complaints about racism still dominate media discussion of the disparity between black and white success. Comedian Chris Rock tells white audiences, "None of ya would change places with me! And I'm rich! That's how good it is to be white!"

It was assumed that the success of Barack Obama, as well as thousands of other black Americans and dark-skinned immigrants -- many of whom thrive despite language problems -- demonstrates that America today is largely a color-blind meritocracy. But a white campus lecturer, Tim Wise, gets tremendous applause from students by saying things like, "[W]hite supremacy and privilege continue to skew opportunities hundreds of years after they were set in place" and in America, "meritocracy is as close to a lie as you can come."

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