here is a question regarding my "white privilege",

[Cal Carpenter]

32. Penance? This is not about religion. This is about political systems

and economic systems, not feelings. This is about policies that lead to real conditions and outcomes for real people.

To do something about a system that rewards or punishes people primarily along lines of race and class, you must first recognize the reality of it.

Whether or not you as an individual have benefited from this type of privilege is, frankly, irrelevant.

If you think there should be more equality and justice, you fight for those things however you see fit (electoral politics, workplace organizing, whatever). But those methods will never be effective unless you recognize where the sharpest line is drawn - along race (and class, of course, the close cousin to race, in terms of real conditions for people).

If you think addressing and confronting white privilege and the systems that protect it is a matter of a 'shame-fest', well, that's your problem inside your own head, man. Again, this is not about feelings.