I think the OP needs to do a google search and read an essay by a white feminist writer her name is Peggy McIntosh. McIntosh wrote a powerful essay about white privilege in 1988. One of the things about white privilege, is that white people don't have to "think" about the "privilege" of being white and not having to deal with race in North America.
Maybe, if a white person moved to another country where whites were not a majority they might encounter a different experience but even then I think they would still experience white privilege.
For instance, if a white person goes to the certain countries they get treated better than say tourists of colour when the travel overseas.
By contrast, people of colour we do think about race, not every single second of our lives but we do think about it because it impacts us in many ways. For instance, job interviews, going to the hospital, dealing with the police, dealing with rude store clerks, interactions with other people in daily life, dating, ect.
So I think some white people are either ignorant about white privilege or they are really oblivious about it. Whiteness is viewed as natural in North America, it is colorless, it is raceless.
Last year, a white male writer for Salon.com wrote an essay about the recent mass school shootings in the United States he theorized since the killers are usually white males their race is ignored in the story. However, can one imagine, if a mass shooter at USA schools was African American, Hispanic, or Muslim, the USA mainstream white media would focus on their race. Davi
Maybe, if a white person moved to another country where whites were not a majority they might encounter a different experience but even then I think they would still experience white privilege.
For instance, if a white person goes to the certain countries they get treated better than say tourists of colour when the travel overseas.
By contrast, people of colour we do think about race, not every single second of our lives but we do think about it because it impacts us in many ways. For instance, job interviews, going to the hospital, dealing with the police, dealing with rude store clerks, interactions with other people in daily life, dating, ect.
So I think some white people are either ignorant about white privilege or they are really oblivious about it. Whiteness is viewed as natural in North America, it is colorless, it is raceless.
Last year, a white male writer for Salon.com wrote an essay about the recent mass school shootings in the United States he theorized since the killers are usually white males their race is ignored in the story. However, can one imagine, if a mass shooter at USA schools was African American, Hispanic, or Muslim, the USA mainstream white media would focus on their race. Davi
I remember that story more than my childhood.
wait, you can't be serious saying that.