If There is Such a Thing as “White Privilege” … This is What it Looks Like. - Granite Grok

If There is Such a Thing as “White Privilege” … This is What it Looks Like.

To be clear, I do NOT believe that there is such a thing as “white privilege.” I believe that some people have experienced privilege … BUT it is privilege along economic lines, not racial lines. For example, Lebron James’ children have experienced far, far more privilege than virtually every chid in America.

If there were such a thing as “white privilege,” however, this is what it would look like:

When I was the same age, rather than hiking the Appalachian trail, I was working my butt off to pay off my student loans and make ends meet. But I did not have a former Governor and former White House Chief of Staff as my father. Nor did I have an older brother who was a sitting Congressman. As a result, I was not pretty much guaranteed a spot at MIT and a waiting job after graduation.

Perhaps Chris believes that everyone with white skin has been as privileged as he has … that we all were made CEOs of ski resorts at the age of 36. That could explain why he believes that “implicit bias” is everywhere in New Hampshire.

It’s a shame that Chris didn’t spend his college-graduation summer hiking through some working class neighborhoods and seeing how much privilege the hoi polloi actually enjoy.

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