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.
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race. - Peggy Mcintosh
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.
- Peggy Mcintosh
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are whit… - Peggy Mcintosh
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are whit…
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. - Peggy Mcintosh
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones. - Peggy Mcintosh
If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
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 th… - Peggy Mcintosh
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 th…
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the m… - Peggy Mcintosh
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the m…
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. - Peggy Mcintosh
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group - Peggy Mcintosh
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group
one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred domina… - Peggy Mcintosh
one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred domina…
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