America’s white fragility complex: Why white people get so defensive about their privilege

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I grew up as one of six children to a paper mill worker father. Our area was definitely not rich. But my father moved to the Chicago area and immediately got a job in a steel mill in 1965. Very few of his fellow workers were black, and the few that were at the mill were janitorial.
That is an example of white privilege.

That steel mill job enabled my father to purchase a home and to accumulate equity/wealth. That is an example of white privilege. He purchased a home in a white area and could receive a mortgage. No redlining for the white family.

I was able to get summer jobs also, but I did not see any black schoolchildren working at those jobs. Coincidence, or white privilege?

When I walk on the street in my area, I am never stopped by the police and asked what I am doing. Could be my age, could be white privilege. When I was a younger person,I was never stopped by the police when walking in any area. Perhaps I just have an honest face, perhaps all white people have honest faces.

And yes, the bottom 99% of white people will never be rich, but we also will never be suspect simply because of skin color.