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As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.
Peggy McIntosh
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Peggy McIntosh
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: November 7
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Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
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