racism

white privilege

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is generally taught as something that puts others at a disadvantage and is rarely addressed from the troubling perspective that it is also a system which puts whites at an advantage ('white privilege').

As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.Peggy McIntosh

is blind to those who are taught to see only individual acts of meanness, not invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.Peggy McIntosh

is the set of benefits that are shouldered by white people much like an invisible and often unacknowledged knapsack packed full of special provisions, tools, and maps.

an invisible package of unearned assets which [she] can count on cashing in each day, but about which [she] was 'meant' to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurance, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks'

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