#understanding privilege

[typo-aesthetic]

Who was I ever to tell you I understand for I did not

Until now

It hurts worse than I ever imagined It angers more than I could ever figure

I’m sorry for my ignorance

[queerhalfhobbit]

Hey, Isabella. How do you go about understanding privilege?

Basically? By listening to people who don't have it.

[syreetamcfadden]

I suggest that the role of the Negro in American life has something to do with our concept of what God is, and from my point of view, this concept is not big enough. It has got to be made much bigger than it is because God is, after all, not anybody's toy. To be with God is to really be involved with some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you. I conceive of my own life as a journey toward something I do not understand, which in the going toward makes me better. I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others. Love does not begin and end in the way we think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. No one in the world - the entire world- knows more-knows Americans better or odd as this may sound, loves them more than the American Negro. This is because he has had to watch you, outwit you, deal with you and bear you, and sometimes even bleed and die with you, ever since we got here, that is, since both of us, black and white, got here--and this is a wedding. Whether I like it or not, whether you like it or not, we are bound together forever. We are part of each other. What is happening to every Negro in the country at any time is happening to you. There is no way around this.

- James Baldwin, In Search of A Majority, an address to Kalamazoo College, February 1960. 

[presidiumguestwifi]

Dear feminist community

I know it's not my job to educate him, but my partner is looking for material on overcoming privilege/coming to terms with and understanding it. If anyone can direct me toward some material about it, help me out!!