A Guide to White Privilege by COURTNEYAHNDESIGN
1. White Privilege doesn’t mean your life hasn’t been hard. It means your skin tone isn’t one of the things making it harder! There’s plenty of other privileges (socio-economic, male, heterosexual, cisgender, christian, able-bodied) but white privilege is perhaps the most enduring throughout history.
2. White Privilege exists as a direct result of both historic and enduring racism, biases, and practices designed to oppress people of color.
3. White Privilege means you actively benefit from the oppression of POC
You are the dominant representation on all media
No on questions your citizenship
Products are designed for you 1st
People at work look like you
You don’t get harassed for existing in public locations
Inherited power and wealth
Your actions aren’t perceived as those of all your race
4. Systemic racism exists at every level of society.
The wealth gap (90% White owned vs 10% POC owned)
Black graduates are 2x more likely to be unemployed
Black americans are 30% more likely to get pulled over
Black students are 3x more likely to be suspended
Black americans make up 40% of the prison population
Black americans are shown 18% fewer homes
Black women are 4x more likely to die from childbirth
And this is only a small port of the oppression
5. What would I do with my White Privilege?
Teach other White folks the barriers to success for POC
Promise to listen to and amplify the voices of POC
Be more than “not racist” but actively anti-racist
Confront racial injustices even when it’s uncomfortable.
