> As for SBF, I suspect that being wealthy and well-connected was far more helpful than being white. Nobody would argue with this. What they would say is one o

> As for SBF, I suspect that being wealthy and well-connected was far more helpful than being white. Nobody would argue with this. What they would say is one of the contributing reasons he was wealthy and well-connected is because he was accepted as a member of the racial majority. Which is certainly partly true. Just because there are no laws that are directly de jure racist, doesn't mean there isn't systemic racism (which is partly cultural, not only legal) that reduces the statistical probability of success of people who aren't in the majority group. > as we see in this article, being white is cause for opposition. This is a stretch. My understanding of the article is that it's a cause for explanation. What we go and do with that explanation is up for discussion.