we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.” one question for me and others like me is whether. Such privilege simply confers dominance because of one's race or sex.” Yet some of the conditions I have described here work to systematically overempower certain groups. We usually think of privilege as being a favored state, whether earned or conferred by birth or luck. For this reason, the word 'privilege' now seems to me misleading. Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit in turn upon people of color. as my racial group was being made confident, comfortable, and oblivious, other groups were likely being made unconfident, uncomfortable, and aliented.
“ Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.”
INVISIBLE KNAPSACK BY PEGGY MCCLINTOCK FREE
If these things are true, this is not such a free country one's life is not what one makes it many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.” The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. “ For me, white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. “ As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something which 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.” "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1988), in Bart Schneider, ed., Race: An Anthology in the First Person ( 1997).White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.”
“ I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was 'meant' to remain oblivious.
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