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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2009-03-13 11:57 am

Mary Anne Mohanraj gets you up to speed, part I

After choosing to avoid direct exposure to RaceFail2009, I enjoyed this summary, by Mary Ann Mohanraj, of some of the key points that have bubbled up.

Much of this sounds rather familiar to me, and I recognize that this is directly due to some of y'all. I've been quietly reading your writing over the last year or three on, for example, what "white privilege" means, and what it doesn't mean, despite what people tend to infer from the term alone. If I've been tacitly absorbing all this, you can assume that many others are, too. So feel free to feel good about that!

(Oh, and please consider comments-reading on the linked post to be more optional than usual. Because: racefail.)

[identity profile] radtea.livejournal.com 2009-03-13 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
One of my kids was commenting the other day how being born white, English-speaking and Canadian was such so hugely fortuitous, identifying "white privilege" without really having a name for it. I'm going to point this out to him, as it might give him a bit of perspective on how his good fortune looks to the majority of the planetary population.