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
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
