So What If I'm White
We need to be clear that there is no such thing as giving up one's privilege to be "outside" the system. One is always in the system. The only question is whether one is part of the system in a way that challenges or strengthens the status quo. Privilege is not something I take and which I therefore have the option of not taking. It is something that society gives me, and unless I change the institutions which give it to me, they will continue to give it, and I will continue to have it, however noble and egalitarian my intentions.
Harry Brod, "Work Clothes and Leisure Suits: The Class Basis and Bias of the Men's Movement," in Men's Lives, ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Messner (New York: Macmillan, 1989), 280. .
The system, what is the system? To some they would say it is a system of bureaucracy brought about by the very men who founded the very idea of white privilege. Others may believe that the "system" has been and always......
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