White Privilege famous quotes

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege,
-- Jon Stewart

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We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.
-- Paule Marshall

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Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.
-- Peggy McIntosh

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one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.
-- Peggy McIntosh

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It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.
-- Peggy McIntosh

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I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.
-- Peggy McIntosh

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White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.
-- Peggy McIntosh

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As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.
-- Peggy McIntosh

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White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
-- Peggy McIntosh

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We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.
-- Geoff Rickly

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If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.
-- Milo Yiannopoulos

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The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'
-- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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