White Privilege Cannot Be Real Because I Ignore Facts, Research, History, And Thine Own Eyes.
Photo by Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash . First published on Medium . . White privilege is a hard topic for many people to accept, or fully understand. Republicans and others will see it as some kind of political correctness, liberal woke claptrap, or even treasonous . Yes, treasonous . That is because it denigrates many a Republicans’ pristine notions about the nation’s founders as well as White-privilege influenced societal structures still in place today. Such American Exceptionalism zealotry destroys our ability to achieve qualitative introspection and self analysis, that is a prerequisite for making effective changes. Why do we White people get our undies in-a-bunch when someone says we have White privilege? The simple answer is fear. We fear it may be true, and that we cannot see it, which means we are ignorant and blind to something. Second, privilege is associated with income, wealth, and-or societal status. This implied association with signif...