Another simple but excellent way to understand what "white privilege' is.

[George II]

21. Growing up in NYC, there were a number of times that I'd get into a situation, to me....

....just an everyday encounter, and then not give it a second thought. Then after I'd wonder, "how would that have worked out if I was Black or Hispanic?" Many of those times I'd feel a wave of guilt, and wonder what every day life is like for non-whites.

It's like that Tyler Perry movie when the four Black women are in a boutique in a resort in Colorado. They started having a vigorous conversation, and the store clerk comes over and says, "we don't keep any cash in the store." Would that have been said if it was four white women having the same conversation?

I admit, I've also been in situations where I'd be stopped at a traffic light in a neighborhood I wasn't familiar with and I'd casually close my car window and locked my door. I remember one time I was in downtown LA and did that, two Black guys on the corner started laughing at me, I smiled back and re-opened my window. They laughed and waved!!

I suppose people have different attitudes, too, depending upon where and how they were raised.