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k. i've been reading some extremely ignorant shit tonight and it's pissing me off.
"I'm White and I've never had privilege."
Please. Stop right there.
White privilege is not ubiquitous. No one's saying that. White privilege is also not the clear-cut issue as everyone seems to think it is: it doesn't mean "You're White so you get everything handed to you" <-- that's completely wrong and fucked up to assume. White privilege also doesn't make all White people racists. That's also fucked up to say.
White privilege is not having to be subject to the same racial profiling or even stereotyping as, for example, a minority or a Black person. It's being treated- whether on a very subtle, subconscious level to more overt forms - differently. It's not quantitative and it's not something you can provide incontrovertible evidence for. But just because you don't witness something, or firsthand experience it, doesn't mean it's not there.
I'm not trying to be dramatic. Look at the big picture. Understand that even though it's been years since the culmination of deliberate segregation, racial inequality still persists. Having a Black president doesn't mean we've surpassed all possible remnants of racism.