As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

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.

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'.

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.

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

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