This article is meant to be of satirical and sarcastic nature.

From the day I was born, some would even argue before that, I was privileged. I was born into an upper-middle-class family, whose father was a physician and whose mother was a stay-at-home mom. I was privileged to be brought up the correct way. I am privileged to have a family I am still proud of to be a part of. I am also privileged to have to deal with divorce and the separation of my family. Thank god I am a white male. I am privileged to have a home, food, and an education. I did not have to work for anything of which I have or will have. I am privileged to have been able to go to three catholic schools and be bullied in two out of the three before attending public school.

I am privileged in having the opportunity to travel the world with my family. I am privileged to have a dad who receives a paycheck that can afford all this by dealing with patients who ridicule him, threaten him and make his life a living hell. On that note, he is privileged to have the opportunity to have a hectic, workaholic life. He is privileged to work 20 hours, sometimes 24 hours every day without ever thinking about himself. It is because of his skin color and gender that makes him do this, not his selfless character and respect for others. It is too bad that those of minorities do not have the opportunity to live his luxurious, relaxing life.

I am privileged to have only spent maybe a few days with my father a week when I was in high school. I was privileged to have the chance to join Boy Scouts and obtain the rank of Eagle through over a hundred hours of community service and leadership positions. It was only my skin color and gender that made that possible. I sure am a lucky white male to have that opportunity.

It is because I am a white male that I did decent in high school that gave me the chance of attending Norwich University. It is because I am privileged that I had to work and study hard to get the grades I earned, or in fact simply received because of my skin color and gender. My gender and my skin color are what factored into my enrollment at a prestigious institution that accepts all races and genders, including being the first institution to enact a religious accommodation for one Muslim student. It is ignorant of me to think that those who chose not to make the decisions I have made to get where I am now are somehow at a loss because of me. I am the reason they did not do well in school. I am the reason they did not get that job they wanted. I am privileged to be able to even write about this.

For those of you who have also worked hard to get where you are now, just remember that it is because of your skin color and gender, and has nothing to do with the amount of work you had to put in.