The last time you handled a challenge well, were you called a credit to your race? When you go shopping, do store clerks watch you closely or follow you? Do you have trouble finding a hair salon nearby that knows how to style your hair? When you buy greeting cards and magazines, is it difficult to find ones with people the same race as you?
If you answered no to these questions, you’re almost certainly white. There’s also a good chance you’ve never looked at your whiteness this way.
Whiteness is the default norm around which most of our culture is organized, and because it permeates our world without being acknowledged, it’s largely invisible.
[For more on this story by Grace Mattern, go to http://www.concordmonitor.com/...e-privilege-13163305]
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