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What are your thought on "white privilege"?

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My thoughts on “white privilege” is that I think many people view it in a way of gaining wealth or something of that sort simply because you’re white and that’s not necessarily the case in most situations, and I think that’s the reason why it’s extremely difficult to talk about because many white people dont feel powerful or as if they have privileges others don’t. For those who have privilege based on race, age, gender, sexual orientation it’s just normal whereas it maybe visible to someone who doesn’t gain from these privileges. For example white people in the United States are two to ten times more likely to get a housing loan than people of color. History books are mainly focused on white experience of history, there’s very little to none spoken of African American history or American Indian history, it wasn’t spoken about at all until I got into college and even then was brief. White privilege does exist but I think the extent to which someone has it varies on many things such as, age, gender, social economic status, sexual orientation, weight, and so on. I think it just goes unnoticed especially if one experiences it. I also think the extent on which someone has it has a lot to do with it being unnoticed as well.