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21. What can the descendants who didn't write the game do to right the game.

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Privilege is an ego construct, a protectedness so internalized that one doesn't even feel pride as much as identity in being on the winning end of inclusion/exclusion narratives based on sex, religion, race or material gain. As children the construct unfolds as stories we tell ourselves and each other. Later it's a club mentality, keenly felt through the gain/loss of inclusions/exclusions of belongingness that show up in high school.

Then the adult world's versions of privilege are more invisible, yet with a hardness. Behind privilege lies the threat of force, not by those who enjoy it by accident of birth or trained entitlement, but by enforcers whose identities, conveniently for the ‘innocent’, always seem to remain nameless. The privileged adopt the construct of club ‘manners’ to mitigate awareness of the hidden violence toward those who ‘violate.’ Here we’re talking race, but my personal experience lies with gender. In either case, the array of force beyond the privilege bubble exist, just in different forms.