Conversation Of The Week XXI: Complicating White Privilege: Race, Poverty, And The Nature Of The Knapsack
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"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group," revealed Peggy McIntosh in her groundbreaking work Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (1990). Being dominant and being victimized seem to be polar opposites, so how can white privilege victimize white people?
Dear Sticky Wicket,
Why do politicians, particularly Republicans, continue to overtly, or covertly perpetuate the impression that more blacks are on welfare and receive food stamps than whites?
~Irate In Sonoma.
Dear Irate,