“If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.” IfsNeedsYearsAsksSituationWeekNegativeEpisodes Author:Peggy McIntosh
“one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.” IfsRaceRacismAdvantageLike MeDominanceWhite PrivilegeOutraged Author:Peggy McIntosh
“For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.” PeopleIfsGivingCountryLife IsCertainWhiteVirtueDoorsSubjectsGiving UpRacismPressurePrivilegeMythElusiveWhite PrivilegeFugitiveMeritocracyFree Country Author:Peggy McIntosh
