Poor Little White Boy Fights The Power

[Ogre Mage]

Perhaps this young man's views will grow with further education.  That's what happened to Hillary Clinton at Wellesley.  That's the most generous statement I can make about what he wrote.

White privilege manifests itself in ways which are not always obvious to the beneficiaries.  Let me give you one example.  I am a minority.  There have been many times when I came up to a public service counter at the same time or even slightly ahead of a white patron/customer and the white customer got helped first.

Now of course I know what some defensive white people will say -- "That's something which has happened to all of us.  Race probably doesn't have anything to do with it."  But it has happened to me enough times that I would not agree with them.  Most notably, I don't think most of the white customers really noticed they were getting helped in front of me.  On some level I'm not even sure the public service staff doing it were aware of what they were doing.  Racism is not always conscious. 

Black people who have tried to catch a cab probably could tell similar stories.