Privilege = shit you don't have to put up with

[BainsBane]

151. and how many were imprisoned as a result?

How long did Geronimo Pratt serve in prison? If something isn't mentioned in the sixties it doesn't count?

You don't have to ever use the term privilege if you don't want. You can ignore it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And it doesn't mean African Americans posters need to exclude words that make you feel uncomfortable.

I think the resistance to the term privilege is part of refusal to understand the more subtle forms of racism that each of us plays a role in perpetuating. People want to imagine racism is something that only Republicans or George Zimmmerman do. The fact is George Zimmerman thought something many people do when they see an African American male at night--that he must be dangerous. Most people don't then kill the person, but we are all raised with messages that associate black manhood with criminality. The concept of privilege is part of identifying one's own standing in a hierarchical society that privileges some above others.