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hatmoza said:

Acknowledge that there is a thing called "white privilege" and that it is effecting the lives of non-white people everyday. Then they can be as proud as they want. Some are unconscious of white privilege... and then there are those who completely reject its existence.

I love this paper on the list of 50 things white people can do that other races cannot.
http://www.cirtl.net/files/PartI_CreatingAwareness_WhitePrivilegeUnpackingtheInvisibleKnapsack.pdf

I'm here thinking that's a list about systematic advantages white people as a whole have (like how a white people back then were the only ones allowed to sit in the front of a bus and if there were no other seats except in the back, they were entitled to ask a black person to stand up and give up their seat).

Instead, I'm getting:  

"I can talk with my mouth full and not have people put this down to my color."

" I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race."

" I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing or body odor will be taken as a reflection on my race."

" I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race."
I could easily dismantle every one of these silly statements (including the rest), but that'd be one long post. This looks like something buzzfeed would make.