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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, who exactly benefits from white privilege.  I can see myself a white, upper middle class male being born on third base, but what about white working class ethnic and people derogatorily referred to as rednecks and hillbillies.  When I told my Polish - American friend she benefited from white privilege, she responded that she spend two years in a refugee camp before coming to the U.S. and she has earned every single thing she has and that no one can tell her she's "privileged." [/quote]

You ask your Polish friend if she would like to wake up tomorrow as a person of color.  
Same name, same job, same house, same spouse, same kids, same everything EXCEPT now she has to walk around 24/7 as a person of color as instead of white.

Ask her if she would rather be a person of color every single time she makes a mistake (as we all do) and say she loses her temper.
Ask her if she would rather be a person of color every single time she makes a mistake (as we all do) and say she oversleeps and gets to work late.
Ask her if she would rather be a person of color every single time she makes a mistake (as we all do) and say she forgets to pay for something nearly walks out with it.

Ask her if she would like to be a person of color even when she doesn't make a mistake...how about when she simply steps into a store or goes to a job interview.
Ask her if she would like to be a person of color even when she doesn't make a mistake...how about when she simply waves down a cab or walks down the street.
Ask her if she would like to be a person of color even when she doesn't make a mistake...how about when she simply wants to get behind the wheel of her car and take a drive.

If your Polish friend is like, [i]"No that's okay, I'll pass on being a person of color"[/i] then you can kindly tell her that she is full of shit - she knows got damn well she's privileged.  [/quote]

You are the one FOS. Some of us simply like being who we are - REGARDLESS of the color of our skin.  We just happen to enjoy our life as it is.  
What is wrong with some of you people?  [/quote]

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