White Privilege is knowing that…

Enar_Larsson • 

 

I have said it before and I'll say it again:

White Privilege is knowing that…

No
politician will ever appeal to me on the basis of my race.

No
matter how disproportionately my race suffers from interracial crime, conversations about that fact are unfit for public discourse.

No
matter how much I despise myself and those who look like me I can never atone for being someone who looks like me.

If I (or someone who looks sufficiently like me) kill a member of another race in legitimate self-defense and am justly acquitted, there is a strong likelihood that the United States Department of Justice will spend the better part of two years harassing my family, friends, acquaintances, and complete strangers across the entire country, trying to find evidence that I am a racist.

My entire life will be irreparably wounded if I admit thirty years after the fact that I once used the n-word to refer to a bank robber with a gun pressed against my temple.

If a member of my race is killed by a member of another race, the POTUS will never publicly declare that if he had a son he would look like that victim.

The U.S. Attorney General will never use the words “my people” to refer to my race. 

If my employer finds out that I wrote this list I will immediately lose my job and will never again be able to find work in my industry.