WHITE PRIVILEGE & COUNTERPOINTS ************************

If you have never read what your "white privileges"are you may be surprised Most are frivolous some are based that the white population is simply the majority in this country, some are silly and some are because of her bias.The answer if someone says "check your white privilege". Just say, No thank you I enjoy it very much," They will call you a racist, but they were going to do it anyway. TRUMP2020

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Privilege:

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Privilege:
By Peggy MacIntosh I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life. I have chosen those conditions that I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographic location, though of course all these other factors are intricately intertwined. As far as I can tell, my African American coworkers, friends, and acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact in this particular time, place and time of work cannot count on most of these conditions. ................................................................................................................. My Counterpoints ................................................................................................................. It is important to understand the lack methodology of Professors MacIntosh's "White Privilege" paper. It hinges on four things that discredit it.: 1. It is a personal judgment, based on personal experiences as an upper-class, Ivy league educated professor in a left-wing academic college.She admits so. 2. The second is the location she speaks of is her hometown of Wellesley Township a New England College town of 27,000 that is the richest in Massachusetts, that 87% white, 12% Asian, and 2.2% black. Hardly a typical town or city in the U.S.

3. Thirdly, she has to rely on the evidence given in a casual manner with no methodology by very likely biased accounts as Wellesley is a left-wing college.

4. Fourthly, She admits that" I have chosen those conditions ... that I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographic location, though, of course, all these other factors are intricately intertwined. While intertwined she gives no logic or reasoning behind her judgments as to how she differentiated. ie. IF she lived in Detroit her viewpoint may be different and not in a small town that is nearly 90% white. Geographic location is a major determinant. In short, it's a biased viewpoint with no basis in fact other than her personal revelations. That is only the only fact we can be sure of in this paper

List of White Privileges: 1. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time. (She lives in a town 87% white) 2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area that I can afford and in which I would want to live. (Wellesley has a population of 27,000) 3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me. ( do you think Asian have that problem or is it Asian privilege) 4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed. (see#3.) 5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. (Whites are 70% of the population, what did you expect to see?) 6. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. (It is predominately is a white European culture) 7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.(see 5) 8. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.( In a college town but why the assumption a black academic couldn't. Is assumption of racism? Why do you make that conclusion?) 9. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone who can deal with my hair.( if you lived in a poor black part of town the same would be true?) 10. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability. 11. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them. 12. I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes, or not answer letters without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race. 13. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my ra 14. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race. 15. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group. 16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color, who constitute the world’s majority, without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion. (Why should you? White guilt?) 17. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider 18. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge” I will be facing a person of my race. (There is less than 600 blacks in town) 19. If a traffic cop pulls me over, or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race. 20. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race. 21. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in rather than isolated, out of place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared. 22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having coworkers on the job suspect that I got it because of race. ( Wouldn't that be perfectly normal) 23. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
(She is describing 1950 conditions not 1987 reality) 24. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help my race will not work against me. 25. If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones. 26. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color that more or less match my skin