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White Privilege is...

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White Privilege is...

White privilege is real.

White privilege is not being afraid for your father, brother, nephews or male cousins making it home at night because an unjust police officer decided that they no longer needed to live.

White privilege is being able to argue with police officers about the speeding ticket you received. While minorities argue with police officers about sparing their lives.

White privilege is us growing up with the same circumstances, but when you don't go off to college you are finding yourself while I'm just being lazy.

White privilege is white Americans not being shamed for recovering public aid because they are down on their luck. While minorities are welfare dependent leeches who don't want to work.

White privilege is Joseph Houseman, a white man, standing armed in front of a Dairy Queen in Michigan being belligerent and cursing at police officers and threatening them with his firearm. He was able to walk away alive. While Philando Castile admitted to officers he had a licensed fire arm and was told to get his license and registration then shot 4 times for reaching for the papers being killed in front of his child and fiancé.

White privilege and not understanding that HBCU's exist because in the beginnings of this country only white colleges existed so we had to make our own colleges.

White privilege is you being able to walk into a boutique and no one following you because you can obviously afford the clothing there. While I should be followed around until I feel to uncomfortable and leave.

White privilege is thinking all lives matter when in this country the lives of people of color obviously do not.

White privilege is being so carefree that you value the life of an ape or lion more than that of a human.

White privilege is not believing it exists because you are white and have not experienced anything different.

White privilege is having the power to change something but being too comfortable to speak.

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