The video above draws on privilege white people have over African Americans.  While Whites are more likely to get jobs, go to college, and be perceived as sophisticated over African Americans, when researching instances of in-prison racism and white privilege nothing came up except for statistics of White versus Black incarceration rates.   This not only made me frustrated but it also made me angry. Why is this?  Why is there no records of in-prison white privilege?  While my cousin, a cop, from Thousand Oaks, California, believes its simply because it does not  exist, I'm not so captured by the idea. 

We know that African Americans make up 12.5-14% of the US population, but it is unbelievable that 38% of this population of African Americans are incarcerated for many offenses white people have often gotten away with.  For example, 5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites. African Americans are also incarcerated for any given crime at nearly six times the rate of whites.  This is hardly astonishing as white privilege is a current and an unending institution in the United States.  But as I said, there is no evidence of racism or white privilege existing inside prison walls, which can be explained by one thing, and one thing only: when it comes to knowledge of white privilege in prison not being announced to the public it is “cuz the white man said so.” Said by Watson in the first season of Orange is the new black. It is perfectly possible for inmates complaints of white privilege or quiet racism to be muffled by the prison system itself, as inmates have no rights, and are constantly beaten for misbehavior or attitude against what is “rightful” treatment of prisoners.  Orange is the New Black may be a distorted and more pleasant look on prison life, but it still asks its audience to consider certain issues that are overlooked or unknown by the U.S. population.  "In 2011-12, an estimated 4.0% of state and federal prison inmates and 3.2% of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the past 12 months or since admission to the facility, if less than 12 months,” although this is lower than expected since many sexual assault victims never come forward. This shows that much of the “drama” that makes up Orange is the New Black, is drawn from real life statistics and encounters by inmates in real prison institutions, so we can conclude that, although we have no sufficient evidence proving white privilege or quiet racism inside prison systems exists, the fact that no one is talking about it or question the institution means that maybe prison systems have something to hide regarding such issues.