White Privilege is real, even accounting for wealth, status, power or popularity

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28. I said "even when they have a parent from another country."

Do they have parents from other countries?

My daughter was playing with some kids at the playground when she was younger, and another kid said he wasn't allowed to play with them because they weren't American. (They were American, but they were black.) My daughter didn't get it. She said that her dad isn't American but she plays with him. But the kid said (in front of his mom) that black people aren't American. She didn't correct him. There is a line of thought that America belongs to white people and other people aren't American no matter how long their families have lived here.

People of color get questioned about their citizenship pretty often. There's a funny youtube video made by an Asian American woman about people wondering where she's from, and then where she's *really* from. I went to college with a young woman who grew up very close to me and went through school with me and I remember walking out of the student union with her when someone asked her where she was from. "Where are you from?" She was from the same place I was from, but I'm white and she's black. People of color are sometimes treated like perpetual foreigners.