White. Adopted transracially. Now get it.
Ursula, Oklahoma City, OK. I did not get white privilege until we adopted. I am so sorry. This story terrifies me.
“The majority won’t address Racism honestly”
Barry Irving, Syracuse, NY. …white people are bred from the notion color superiority and first privilege. They don’t see others as equal and that is...
My privilege is choosing to engage.
Annie Greenberger, New York, NY. Georgetown Day School I realize that I have the choice whether to engage in this project, I have the choice...
Privilege is not a useful framework.
Ilana Gorelik, Brooklyn, NY. I’m looking to the cookie, myself.
Being white makes me feel guilty
Micaela Laurelville, OH My privilege is always at the forefront of my mind. I cry in history class and while reading certain historical books. How...
White Can’t Fight for Racial Equality
Miles SC Out privilege is a curse when it comes to wanting to help voice the problems with race.
Caucasian, trying not to be white
Anonymous Mobile, AL I was born and raised Caucasian, though of course, like most Caucasians, I was referred to and referred to myself as “white.”...
“Not seeing” race is a privilege!
Amanda Feinman Poughkeepsie, NY Race is a social category, which is given meaning by institutional and cultural systems of advantage of disadvantage. Race is significant...
Light skin doesn’t make me privileged
Em New York, NY Born in Mexico, to mexican parents, crossed the border to find a better life, learning english on tv, grew up in...
Privilege is not having to notice.
Jennifer DiBrienza Palo Alto, CA Growing up as a white woman, I never had to think very much about race. As an adult I have...
Just got blamed for being white.
Anonymous Frederick, MD Another woman just stopped on the street and screamed at me because I’m white and that must make me privileged. She has...
Individual or systemic, racism always matters.
Giselle Sanchez Huerta Poughkeepsie, NY Race is a concept that continues privilege, structural power, and inequitable distribution of resources based on phenotypes/ sets of observable...
I recognize my privilege in life.
Anonymous, Baltimore, MD I am a middle class American female, who, through feminism, was able to come to terms with my real place in this...
