White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.
- Peggy McIntosh
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Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to... As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at... For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid... Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the... White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and... one question for me and others like me is whether … we will get truly distressed, even outraged,... It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated... Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try... Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so... If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or...
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