Monday, September 15, 2008

This Is Your Nation on White Privilege

So Tim Wise is not black, but he is a smart guy and this post on how white privilege cintinues to operate is spot on:

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.

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