Principles of Compensation (Fred Speaking)
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You can make that case for the south, Malik, where the black population is large, public schools for blacks were inferior, and all sorts of restrictions were placed on the jobs that blacks could get. In that situation, a white person encountered less competition at every level because blacks were excluded. For example, if blacks were kept out of the skilled trades, whites who wanted to enter them gained a lot, and the economic benefits can be passed on to the next generation.

But I don't see how you can make the same argument for parts of the country where the number of blacks is a lot smaller. In those areas, even if blacks were discriminated against, the benefit to whites was quite small. So we can't generalize about whites as beneficiaries.

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