Advantage Quote by Peggy McIntosh

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

— Peggy McIntosh

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

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

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

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

White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

— Peggy McIntosh

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

“Both Richard and I sat silent and watched Jennifer Lee . She came across the room and over to us and swept our chess…

— Cecil Brown

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

— Chris Hayes

“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White privilege is…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there’s a group of people getting together to share…

— Simon S. Tam

We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes,…

— Paule Marshall