Privileged
Privilege is invisible to the privileged but very present to the non-privileged. In the article “Making Systems of Privilege Visible” by Stephanie M. Wildman and Adrienne D. Davis, the authors explain that nothing can be done about privilege because privilege has not been recognized in legal language and doctrine. Because of the exclusion of privilege from legal reasoning, it is impossible to address issues of systemic unfairness within our societies. Privilege can be used by dominant genders (males) and dominant races (white). Race and gender already make it hard to see each other as whole people and adding the privilege to it will just add more to the problem. For example, between a white man and a white woman running for presidency of United States the white male is more likely become president of the United States (as seen in recent events), yet if a black woman is also running for the presidency her chances are less than that of a white woman because white privilege and racism.
Privilege can even be seen in language, a King, and a Queen might be considered royalty and all powerful over the people they rule yet the Queen has less power than the King, the King has control over his army, not the Queen, the Queen is just filling out the role of wife with a few extra perks. Because privilege is invisible to those that possess it are able to judge those that are not privileged without guilt because the privileged feel that they earned the benefits of their privilege through hard work.
The article also explains how white people use privilege unknowingly to ignore the fact that they are systematically supporting racism. By ignoring racism privileged white people believe that they are not racist, yet by doing that they are doing the opposite, they are supporting racism. Racism cannot be solved by ignoring and telling yourself you’re not racist, racism is not a problem that certain racist individuals believe in, racism is a systematic idea embedded within society that every time it’s ignored becomes more powerful. As one of the authors says at the end of the article “Whites spend a lot of time trying to convince ourselves that we are not racist. A big step would be for whites to admit that we are racist and then to consider what to do about it.”.