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Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders by balls187 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:53PM (#10229778)
> I'm curious what privileges you perceive, or know to be true, for non-minorities.

* Innocent until proven guilty (See driving while black)

* Citizenship is rarely, if ever, questioned

* Friendly relationship with Law Enforcement/Authority

* Better health care[1]

1: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/black-kids-get-les...

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Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders by balls187 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:01PM (#10229834)
* Less likely to be assumed a criminal, drug user, or other lower ranking member of society

* Less likely to die of curable diseases

* Lesser prison sentences for the same crimes committed by minorities.

* Less likely to get passed over for a job interview

* Easier time dating

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Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders by balls187 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:04PM (#10229854)
* raise interest rates

* Until recently be a credible candidate for president of the us

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Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders by Mz on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:08PM (#10229885)
* Have a speech impediment and not be held back, even from high office like president of the us.

(I have rebutted arguments that "It isn't racist to discriminate against blacks for having the black accent because it just proves they are uneducated and inarticulate" by saying "George W. Bush. If articulate speech is really the criteria, how did he ever get to be president? And if we can hire an inarticulate white guy but not an inarticulate black guy, then something in there is still racist somehow, no?")

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