White privilege is …
- Not worrying you’ll wind up dead if the police pull you over for failing to signal a lane change or for not having a front license plate.
- Not worrying you’ll wind up dead if the police stop you on suspicion of shoplifting.
- Not worrying police will kill you for selling cigarettes on the street corner.
- Not worrying police will kill you for carrying a BB gun in the toy aisle of a Walmart that also sells firearms.
- Not worrying police will kill your son for playing with a toy gun at a neighborhood park.
- Not worrying the volunteer neighborhood watch captain will kill your son for walking home at night after buying candy at a nearby convenience store.
- Knowing you and your friends can safely show up in body armor and carrying semiautomatic rifles in a predominantly black community where angry protesters are confronting the police.
- Knowing you can safely show up with your semiautomatic rifle slung across your back at a public event where the country’s first black president is speaking.
- Knowing you can kill nine black worshippers at a historically black church and the first question people will ask is whether you are mentally ill, not whether you are racist.
- Knowing that when pundits, politicians, and the media panic over extremism, the dangers of radicalization, and the threat of homegrown terrorists, they’re not talking about you or your group.
- Knowing that if you are a celebrity charged with the horrific murder of your ex-wife and her friend, the last thing you have to worry about is whether Time Magazine will doctor your mug shot to make your skin look darker.
That’s white privilege.
William toll says
Unfortunate that anyone who takes time to read this, aren’t the problem, critical thought isn’t anything racists are guilty of. Can I end a sentence with of?