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In reply to the discussion: It's disappointing to see "liberals" deny the existence of white privilege [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)is one place that I have found a most biting example of white privilege. I was talking to a friend who is black and he showed me a copy of a flyer for a slave auction. A family member was trying to discover the identity and age of one of the young men who they believed was an ancestor. He happened to be from my hometown.
After seeing that, I took a look at the book created by a family member that traces our family roots back to Ireland a couple hundred years. I have this romantic historical record. Many of my black friends and native American family members know they have a tragic family history and there often is little or no record to show that their ancestors ever even existed.
With technology, many of us have had the privilege to trace those records and discover our roots more thoroughly than we may have thought possible. It seems that most people who have don't do come out with an adventurous, romantic family history. That is not often available to people of color and it matters.