White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to be more like 'us'.

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.

I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.