The best piece on "white privilege" I've read.
This is an excellent explanation, with 10 powerful examples drawn from painful memories. Written in response to a rather snotty request for information about the topic by, of course, a white person. The first example:
1. When I was three, my family moved into an upper-middle class, all-white neighborhood. We had a big backyard, so my parents built a pool. Not the only pool on the block, but the only one neighborhood boys started throwing rocks into. White boys.
One day my mom ID’d one as the boy from across the street, went to his house, told his mother and fortunately, his mother believed mine. My mom not only got an apology, but also had that boy jump in our pool and retrieve every single rock. No more rocks after that. Then Mom even invited him to come over to swim sometime if he asked permission. Everyone became friends.
This one has a happy ending because my mom was and is badass about matters like these, but I hope you can see that the white privilege in this situation is being able to move into a “nice” neighborhood and be accepted – not harassed, made to feel unwelcome, or prone to acts of vandalism and hostility.
http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/told-white-friend-black-opinion/
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