Being of mostly Caucasian descent makes me a beneficiary of “white privilege”. So I’m told.<\/p>\n
However, the terms of that “privilege” are entirely defined by those who purportedly don’t<\/i> have it; indeed, we are told as people who “have” the “privilege” that we can’t possibly understand it.<\/p>\n
Apparently we benefit from something we can not only sense or define ourselves, but can not describe. \u00a0Because privilege.<\/p>\n
If can neither sense it nor know what it is, because of our privilege, how are we supposed to deal with it (other, of course, than shut up and contribute to Nekima Levyi-Pounds, of course)?<\/p>\n
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