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Does "white privilege" exist?
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May 2nd, 2012
Peggy McIntosh, Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, describes white Privilege as “an invisible package of unearned assets, which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible
weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools, and
blank checks” (McIntosh, 1989).
So, do whites have hidden benefits?
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