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3) The accumulated effects of historical disadvantage. Both my parents have worked in media my whole life, as have many of their friends...

from that group, I know one guy whose films have hit Sundance, and I worked in reality TV for four years right after college.

I know these people aren't any more or less talented than white counterparts, because they've frequently MENTORED those white counterparts.

So if my family and their friends had been white, I can say with some confidence they would have more access/success

which means I would have had more access/success. If I could get to a top 20 cable show with no NYC TV contacts...

IMAGINE what I could have done if I'd been on studio film sets my entire life instead of the smaller projects my social circle had access to

and that's not to say that I can't get even further on my own; it's just to say that a black person expending the same effort...

will not get as far as a white person, on average, expending the same amount of effort, simply because whites, on average, have more access.