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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Activities like this just make me angry. My teen had to do one at school and came home so confused because they kept talking about white privelige and so many of the things didn’t apply to him, even though he’s white. It’s a difficult conversation to have with your kid when he’s made to feel embarrassed that he’s white and further embarrassed that he’s not coming from storybook circumstances. [/quote]

If your white male teen participated in a privilege exercise and felt underprivileged compared to his white peers than it wasn’t about WHITE privilege. It was mixed socio-economic, education etc like the exercise OP’s daughter did. I guarantee you that your white male son experiences just as much white privilege as other white kids. Some examples of statements (not written by me for sake of time) that demonstrate white privilege:

1. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
2. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.
3. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
4. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.
5. I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.
6. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.
7. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.
8. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world’s majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.
10. If a traffic cop pulls me over I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.
11. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race.
12. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me.
13. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color and have them more less match my skin

-White person sick of other white people whining,  “I’m poor, not privileged!”  :roll: [/quote]

The criteria above refer to profiling. That is distinctly different, and not the opposite of privelige.

Sorry, white chick. You still don’t get it. [/quote]

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