03-05-2016, 06:27 PM
(03-05-2016, 06:23 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: White privilege is getting pulled over for speeding and knowing that I am statistically less likely to receive a ticket.
White privilege is knowing that nobody will think that I have my job solely because of my skin color or because a quota needed to be filled.
White privilege is working at the courthouse in a suit and people assuming I am a lawyer rather than a defendant.
Those are three that I could think of off the top of my head that affect me directly. While the concept of white privilege can be overblown, it is something that deserves a conversation. Matt tried a while back, and I imagine this thread will suffer a similar fate.
Okay, but that's not white privilege....that wouldn't exist if not for Affirmative Action.
Or is it white people's fault that minorities want AA but are now mad at the easy to foresee consequences of it?
