You can try to deny it all you want, but it’s true, and denying it only makes you complicit in the way it negatively affects marginalized people, so go ahead and own up to it if you claim you are not like those other whites. It doesn’t work the same way for white people, and that is a direct result of white privilege. You can be a Black person with no criminal history, and that still doesn’t guarantee that people won’t view you as a criminal. You can put a poor white person in the same space as a poor Black person, and the white person is going to be viewed as somehow better no matter their station.īeing the smartest, most educated and experienced person applying doesn’t guarantee a Black person will get a job, but a mediocre white person can get a job over them because of white privilege.Ī Black person with good credit and a large bank account still can’t live anywhere they want, but a white person can. White privilege is an inherent gift that all white people benefit from just by virtue of being white. Whenever white privilege comes up as a topic, there are always white people who want to claim they don’t have it because they are poor or uneducated or whatever excuse they come up with to try and distance themselves from the very thing that gives them a leg up no matter their class or circumstance. “You’d have to be completely consumed by whiteness to believe that Black artists have only made 11 albums worthy of album of the year.” White privilege is a helluva drug.īefore I get started, let me be clear about one thing: All white people have white privilege. “Black people created rock, jazz, hip-hop and every form of American music,” he added.

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