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" White privilege is largely hidden from our eyes if we are white. Why? Because it is structural instead of psychological and we tend to interrupt most things in personal, individual and psychological ways. Since we do not consciously have racist attitudes or overt racist behavior, we kindly judge ourselves to be openminded egalitarian, iberal, and therefore surely not racist. Because we have never been on the other side, we largely do not recognize the structural access, the trust we think we deserve, the assumption that we always belong and do not have to earn our belonging. The "we set the tone" mood that we white folks often live inside of and take totally for granted and even naturally deserved. Only the outsider can spot all these attitudes in us. "

Ken Wytsma , The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege


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Ken Wytsma quote : White privilege is largely hidden from our eyes if we are white. Why? Because it is structural instead of psychological and we tend to interrupt most things in personal, individual and psychological ways. Since we do not consciously have racist attitudes or overt racist behavior, we kindly judge ourselves to be openminded egalitarian, iberal, and therefore surely not racist. Because we have never been on the other side, we largely do not recognize the structural access, the trust we think we deserve, the assumption that we always belong and do not have to earn our belonging. The