For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is… — 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 Image
It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up… — 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 Image
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 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… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
