What is White Privilege?
White privilege does NOT mean that white people do not face hardships, it simply means that skin color has not contributed to these hardships.
Race was used to subjugate people of African descent for personal and corporate profit in the Americas. This is the societal basis that the modern world is founded on. You can learn more about the history of slavery in America with the numerous essays from The 1619 Project by the New York Times Magazine. Even today African Americans still are not "free” from systemic racism. These two pieces by the Washington Post: "Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families, new analysis shows" and "There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal justice system is racist. Here’s the proof." provide such evidence. White privilege means that you can do many things without fearing for your life, such as
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