White Privilege Quotes

White Privilege Quote of the day

If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

White privilege is the other side of racism.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined.

White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.