RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 18, 2016 at 1:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2016 at 1:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
White privilege isn't quotas...it's not overt and determined racism. It is the unearned wage of the color of one's skin. Those things I can take for granted for no reason other than my whiteness (of which there are a great many). I'm sure that the dynamics of privilege change with the demographics of power in any given country...but that doesn't speak to white privilege here, in the US.
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