If You Don’t See It, It’s Not There 0
And we white folks don’t see it, because we don’t look for it.
I get white privilege. I’ve gotten it all my life. It’s an unspoken undercurrent to day-to-day life in the United States.
It hasn’t caused me suffering; it’s given me benefits–unspoken and unnoticed benefits because they were, well, just there. One of the aspects of white privilege is being surprised that someone else would notice that being white has privilege.
The United States is a racist society. (If you doubt me, watch Fox News–racism is its currency). Racism is America’s original sin.
We expunge it, else it will take us down.
And I am increasingly doubtful that we shall expunge it.
