White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share
