"In proportion as my racial group was being made confident, comfortable, and oblivious, other groups were likely being made unconfident, uncomfortable, and alienated. Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color."
A high percentage of impoverished people are actually people who lack privileges due to their race. These people have to deal with unnecessary circumstances in their day to day lives, which includes living in a constant fear, experience violent acts against themselves or in the environment around them and so on. Peggy McIntosh shows how the so called "white privilege" is actually contributing to the violence because it is depriving others of such privileges.
A high percentage of impoverished people are actually people who lack privileges due to their race. These people have to deal with unnecessary circumstances in their day to day lives, which includes living in a constant fear, experience violent acts against themselves or in the environment around them and so on. Peggy McIntosh shows how the so called "white privilege" is actually contributing to the violence because it is depriving others of such privileges.
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