White people need saving?

[Marrah_G]

81. It could be worse

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You could be a black man, fighting foreclosure, without insurance, on foods stamps, trying to eek your way by every day.

I am poor and white also, but female. I know that my life has a few less stresses in it then a black woman in my same circumstances.

That is what privilege means. It doesn't mean we are privileged, as in rich, by being white. It means our lives are easier then someone of a different race in exactly our same shoes.

I once thought it meant the same thing you think it means, I was wrong then, as you are wrong now.