The difference between white pathology and black pathology is that white people and white pathologies exceed the number of black people and black pathologies. Thus, white pathologies seem “normal” and excuseable as “kids being kids”. White pathologies are also seen as relatively harmless because many people did the same thing when they were kids. (The media happily reinforces this.) For example, college frat-party style binge drinking. It’s a pretty destructive thing. But lots of privileged white adults did this and “they turned out fine”. So it’s normal and excuseable as kids being kids.

Black pathologies are labled abnormal and dangerous because they’re different and foreign. White person sits on the train, sees black kids acting rowdy, and has zero frame of reference from which to judge the activity. And thus, finds it patently offensive and inexcusable. Black person sits on the same train, sees the same thing, and remembers how she did the same thing when she was 15 years old and turned out just fine. She inwardly rolls her eyes, conceals a smirk, and goes back to reading her book.

But how do you like that: