RT: What does White privilege mean to you?
How do you define it?
White privilege is largely
hidden from our eyes if we are white. Why? Because it is structural instead of
psychological, and we tend to interpret most things in personal, individual,
and psychological ways. Since we do not consciously have racist attitudes or
overt racist behavior, we kindly judge ourselves to be open minded,
egalitarian, "liberal," and therefore surely not racist. Because we
have never been on the other side, we largely do not recognize the structural
access, the trust we think we deserve, the assumption that we always belong and
do not have to earn our belonging, the "we set the tone" mood that we
white folks live inside of — and take totally for granted and even naturally
deserved. Only the outsider can spot all these attitudes in us. It is
especially hidden in countries and all groupings where white people are the
majority.
