white privilege is the unearned benefits and advantages that accrue to people, white skinned individual, by virtue of their light complexion.

It is the counterpoint of It is the counterpoint of what I call the myth of meritocracy.

That if you work hard enough, you earn things in society.

Don't wanna get political, but Molly Ivins, Don't wanna get political, but Molly Ivins, you might know, syndicated she passed quite a few years ago.

She wrote something when George Bush, the second George Bush ran for president, that is the epitome of understanding advantages in our society.

She said that George Bush was born on third base and believes he hit a triple.

And what she was saying is that George Bush was advantaged And what she was saying is that George Bush was advantaged in his life.

He benefited from economic privilege He benefited from economic privilege from male privilege and from white privilege.

He started at third base.

And for people of color who don't enjoy the advantages of white privilege, there are many people of color who have worked equally hard as George Bush or any of the 98% of white CEOs in our nation.

If you ask them, all of them would say, I worked hard and sacrificed.

And I don't doubt that they did.

But what they don't realize is that they were advantaged.

But what they don't realize is that they were advantaged.

And that there are many women and people of color who have worked equally hard who have worked equally hard and probably some much more competent and skilled will not make it to the batter's box.

This is a nature of the invisibility of whiteness, that is a default standard that makes it very difficult for white people to really see the advantages of whiteness in our nation and society.