White Privileges: My Personal Experiences

As, a grown woman, I realized there far more serious dilemmas to deal with than being called a monkey or African booty scratcher and so forth. I have learned that my color not only earned me inferiority in the society, but it’s a weapon in itself. There are various issues I had to deal with on the daily basis that white people don’t have to experience, if so maybe not often. Here is a list of five examples of unearned white privileges that I cannot relate to by Peggy McIntosh.
1. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
2. I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection.
3. I can easily buy posters, post-cards,
I am sure when I have a girl, I will have to teach her to fear the system as well since, the police begin to brutalized females. In fact, (3) I can’t drive a nice care without being pulled over by a police office, simply for driving a nice care while black. according to Bill Quigley (2015), Black drivers are 31 percent more likely to be pulled over than white drivers. Likewise, Hispanic drivers are 23 percent more likely to be pulled over than white drivers. Black and Hispanic motorists are more likely to be given tickets than white drivers for the same offenses-. “Traffic tickets are big business”. Moreover, (4) when I try to buy my black boy's coloring books or toy soldiers, I would sit on a computer for hours looking for toys that resemble them or toys soldiers that look like their father. In addition, (5) if a white person declares there is a racial issue at hand, or there isn’t a racial issue at hand, her/his race will lend them more credibility for either position than a person of color will have (McIntosh, 1998). For instance, When Amanda, Knox was accused of murdering her roommate, in Perugia, Italy, her first response was to implicate Diya “Patrick” Lumumba, a Congolese-born resident of Italy who owned a bar in Perugia named Le Chic where Knox worked part-time. Lumumba was promptly arrested. Knox told Italian police in a written statement that she saw Lumumba enter Kercher’s room on the evening of Nov. 1, 2007. She later admitted that this version of events was made up, but she implied that it was made up under pressure. However, the man spent two weeks in an Italian jail before Knox’s story fell apart. What if her story didn’t fall