105 Quotes About White-privilege

One of the privileges of not being a part of a marginalized group is believing you can set your own benchmarks for bigotry.

When we hide racism under the guise of 'humor,' we insulate white racist privilege and make a mockery of civil rights.

The status quo always favors neutrality which in truth is never neutral at all but supports those who stand against change.

White privilege is a manipulative, suffocating blanket of power that envelops everything we know...It's brutal and oppressive, bullying you into not speaking up for fear of losing your loved ones, or job, or flat. It scares you into silencing yourself: you don't get the privilege of speaking honestly about your feelings without extensively assessing the consequences...challenging it can have implications on your quality of life.

We see race as what people of color have (or are.) If people of color are not present, race is not present. Further, if people of color are not present, not only is race absent, so is that terrible thing: racism. Ironically, this positions racism as something people of color have and bring to whites, rather than a system which whites control and impose on people of color.

White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end.

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

To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation and not have one single person who loved, mentored or guided me convey that there was any loss.

Whiteness–the whole constellation of practices, beliefs, attitudes, emotions that are mixed up in being white–is the problem. Whiteness is degraded and depraved[…] To the degree that we accept any of the meaning that the dominant society gives to whiteness, we white people are degraded and depraved.