ST. LOUIS • Candidates for mayor faced off Wednesday night at the Sheldon Concert Hall to discuss their plans to make the city more racially equitable.

Racial equity is commonly defined as a state in which education, health, prosperity and other social outcomes can no longer be predicted by race.

The forum included six candidates — five Democrats and one Republican — and used the Forward through Ferguson report as a backdrop.

Candidates generally agreed on the concept of white privilege playing a role in where people end up in life.

Lyda Krewson, 28th Ward alderman and the only white candidate who met the deadline requirements to participate in the forum, acknowledged her own.

“There's no doubt in this country that over the last century-and-a-half, there's a benefit to being born white,” she said. “We need to level the playing field” for those who “haven't had the opportunities that I've had.”