Jun. 10, 2012 at 1:40pm with 108 notes
privilegesubmission
#431

White privilege is reading Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn aloud in your mostly white English class and not being the one black student that everyone stares at when the word “nigger” is read.

Note: that one black student was me. 

Mod note: Every time that word was mentioned in Huck Finn, the professor glanced at me really quickly.

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    I understand that completely. Try being one of the only Black students in a history class when they show Alex Haley’s...
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    Yes. Going through it in high school was enough. But I had to deal with this last year, for one of my English classes,...
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    Jesus god, I’d never realised that about To Kill A Mockingbird - and because of my white privilege I read and enjoyed it...
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