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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you aren't comfortable writing about "white privilege" then flip it - I don't think it would be too hard for my elementary or middle schooler to write about all the ways in which life can be harder when you're black.  Do you really think that's not true?  Do you really not want your kids to be aware of it?[/quote]

That is still equally inappropriate especially for that age.

Not all white kids have privilege and not all black kids have terrible lives and depending on the child have a lot more privilege.[/quote]

Um, nothing about the concept of white privilege says that "all black kids have terrible lives" or that you can't have white privilege and ALSO have a terrible life. [/quote]

A black rich kid attending Sidwell who lives in upper northeast has way more privilege, even more so because he is black and rich, then a lower middle class white kid attending a poorly rated public.  Clean cut black kid vs lower class white kid will get treated better in dc including police.  Same goes for black wealthy women vs white wealthy women.  The white privilege idea is at best circumstantial and at worst a complete myth [/quote]

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