Whites attribute racial inequality to behavior while benefiting from networks they deny

Evidence

With racial habits, white advantage shows up as the ordinary stuff of living. White people simply work hard and earn their opportunities. Black people, as one New Jersey respondent noted, are a “bunch of fucking lazy people….They think the government owes them something….You’ve got to go and get it. It’s not handed to me….They just…to me, they’re lazy. I mean, point blank. They’re looking for the easy way out.” For him, racial inequality is not a problem of policy or politics; it is one of behavior. Interestingly, a friend gave this same person, who was applying for a job, a copy of the test and the answers. He said he wasn’t so good in school. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 159

Categorization

• CANDY: The irony of the white respondent calling blacks lazy while a friend handed him job test answers is tweetable.
• XREF: connects to: Unintentional racial microaggressions flow from well-meaning whites who deny their own bias. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1254; White privilege manifests as invisible everyday advantages that sustain racial disparity — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 425