I love it when white Dudes proclaim to know the cure for white privilege

[Squinch]

142. Acknowledgment. And before you say, "Fine I acknowledge it so it's cured,"

what I mean is that it needs to be acknowledged by the privileged in response to the situation in which the privilege was wielded. The privileged need to make it socially unacceptable among themselves to use the privilege, and need to point out its unacceptable nature when they see it occurring.

For example if, as recently happened to me, I am at a real estate open house, and a black couple arrives and the realtor makes a side remark to me that the couple will probably not be comfortable in the neighborhood, nudge, nudge, as a member of the privileged group, I need to be vocal about the fact that her attitude toward them lost her my business. She doesn't want the business of the non-privileged group. She does want my business. They can't create a change in her behavior. I can. The non-privileged group, by definition, cannot end privilege. Only the privileged group can.

Another example: smart, obviously well educated, adult people on a discussion board discuss their first hand experiences with privilege and how profoundly they have been affected by them. Some jackass, without any first hand experience of that privilege, comes along and tells them that the experiences either didn't occur, or were not important, or were not examples of white privilege, or they say that white privilege doesn't exist. One step to cure white privilege is if we all avoid being that jackass.