of paternalism and condescension.

Checking in on our privilege is not a bad plan if what to continue to be better allies to the black community.....

My mother and left me half:paralyzed? Does it make you feel good to tar people of the same color with.the same brush?

However this article is about how white privilege owns every place, and we need to remind ourselves about it. It is not about the individual it is about a systemic white supremacist society that is embedded in our cultures, through Empire in Britain and the history of a countries wealth and governance in America built on slavery, and from that how our governments, our laws, our education systems and our criminal justice systems, to name just a few, have been designed, developed and embedded over generations by white men, for white men. That is just a fact. However hard your life has been that does not mitigate the second or third class status of people of colour, or that the system is stacked against them. It is difficult sometimes to empathise with this, as a white woman of privilege it is my job, as an ally of the community, to check in and make sure that I am actively mindful of this on an every day basis. Stating I am not a racist is not enough. Anti-racists who live a life of white privilege need these reminders, however mindful we might be. I thought it an excellent article in this regard.

It doesn't mean that you, personally, have had an easy life just because you're white. It describes a systemic advantage or benefit of the doubt granted to white people as a whole, with measurable economic and social benefits *in the aggregate.* What it can look like at the individual level is a video game on an easier setting. It doesn't predict outcomes, but it can find patterns: In a conflict such as a traffic stop for speeding, a white person over time is more likely to get off with a warning than a black person, that kind of thing.

It doesn't mean any of us has to apologize for who we are. That's not what unpacking racism is about. It does mean some serious reckoning with the institutions in this country and how they are built on the concept of white supremacy, and whether we're willing to put in the effort to undo those biases.

Thanks for posting it! K&R