“I know a lot of white people bristle when they hear the word ‘privilege’, as in white privilege, because there are millions of white people who didn’t grow up with money or a good education or a solid family background, or maybe even a family at all. So when they hear the word privilege, they go, ‘what privilege?’
Like many white people, I felt defensive when he first heard the term, white privilege: I rejected it, because I didn’t understand what white privilege meant, thinking it meant people with a silver spoon like Trump, and not his upbringing.
But people who are white, we don’t have to deal with negative assumptions being made about us based on the color of our skin … whereas black people experience that every day. Imagine how frustrating it must be to have to prove yourself to be something other than what people assume you probably are every day, sometimes multiple times every day.
And now imagine what it must be like to be brutalized and killed and scared that those things might happen. What happened to George Floyd was on video – how often does this happen without a camera recording the whole thing?
So if you’re wondering why people are angry and why they can’t just march nicely in the street holding up the signs in a single-file line, maybe that’s why. White privilege doesn’t mean your life hasn’t been hard, it just means the color of your skin isn’t one of the things that makes it harder.” —Jimmy Kimmel
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