Hi there everyone, I'm white...

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145. But don't you think white privilege is one of the tools of institutional racism?

Don't you think that by showing people what privilege looks like, you're also showing them, us, what the flip side looks like? That's how you show people institutional racism, and that's the only way to start building institutions that don't have racism built in.

For example, downthread there's a comment asking about prisons, and why so many black people are in prison. The way the question was worded, it implied that the answer was because black people commit more crimes. There's a perfect example of color-blind privilege. The poster seems to not understand the institutional racism of the prison, law enforcement, and judicial systems (despite the clear examples lately with all the police murders of unarmed black men). If that person understood WP, they'd be closer to acknowledging the systemic racism that creates such an atrocious system in the US. Extend that to schools, colleges, the workplace, and soon you begin to show people how racism still exists, like malware in the US operating system. If we can't see it, we can't fix it.