Friday, October 21, 2016
My experience with White Privilege
White Privileges means to have money and that might be the case sometimes but not with every white person. Just the other night I had a fight with my best friend which caused us to not be friends anymore. What she said was really hurtful and had to do with having "White Privileges." She said to me," You know your mom puts so much effort into your life and you walk around with your hand out expecting shit all the time. " Just because my Mom and Dad spend so much time and money on me to do well in school doesn't mean I walk around with my hands out expecting things to magically appear. I work and pay for my gas and for the things I want that I want in life.I may come from a wealthy family but my parents do not act like we are. My parents are conservative and do not just hand me money whenever I want it. I am not being raised that way.
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I think that white privilege is a very hard issue just because everyone has their own definition of it. White privilege to people is money, or it could be the actual benefits from skin color. It is sometimes hard to avoid white privilege when you are white, but realizing that it is there is very important. There are of course white people that don't fit with the "white privilege", but in that can still be forgotten about. Some people can only see skin.
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