EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

[SheilaT]

6. Absolutely amazing. Thank you for posting this.

It's incredibly hard for white people to understand that they are surrounded by white privilege all the time, because it's essentially invisible to them.

I've recently become aware that I am the beneficiary of older white lady privilege, the kind the means when I get stopped for some minor traffic violation (speeding or not stopping full at a stop sign) I always get a warning, never a ticket, even when someone else (say a black man) would probably get one. Or even my young adult white sons.

I have on rare occasion been witness to incidents along the lines of what Lori Lakin Hutcherson has described. I've never had to live with such stuff. I have had the experience of being the first woman in a job formerly held only by men, and that wasn't terrific, although it was not the hell that some women in that sort of situation experience.