Youre on your way to work, going over your notes in your head. Youve been planning this presentation for weeks, and you feel the utmost prepared. You wore your lucky socks just for the added luck, but you really dont need it. You got this. But in reality, you dont. You will not get the job. You definitely wont get the raise. You will never be fully respected by your boss. You will never be the face of the company. You will never amount to your colleagues and competitors. Simply because you will never be White. White privilege is something that can no longer be avoided in our American society. It is real and quite prevalent. White privilege is a feeling, an ideology, a social status, and for some, a gift. It is used to segregate Whites from other races, but not in the way African Americans were segregated from Whites. White privilege allows oneself to move up financially, politically, academically, and socially. It is a form of power that has
developed into the oppression described as classism, and it is dividing our nation not only in the workforce but in classrooms as well. We teach children to strive to do their best and we discourage them from working at McDonalds, collecting welfare, having a baby with a good for nothing baby daddy. We engrave this classist mindset and groom them to think they need to be the best just based off their social status. If we have white privilege, why dont we refer to black privilege or asian privilege? If White trash is the best we can come up with, why do other races have much more offensive derogatory terms? Contrary to popular belief, white privilege is very real in todays society and allows white Americans to have a leg up financially, politically, and academically, as well as how there is a divide amongst the privileged white community and the so-called white trash, and how were grooming the future generations to become severely classist.