[Sara]

There is certainly something called ‘white privilege.’ White privilege is turning on the television or opening up a magazine and seeing your race put up on a pedestal where it is viewed as the ideal. White privilege is walking down the street knowing that people around you do not assume that you are on welfare, uneducated, a criminal or immoral. White privilege is not having mainly negative stereotypes exist about your race. White privilege exists when you are given the opportunity to make mistakes and not be perfect. What I have listed does not begin to touch on the level of white privilege that exists in this society. It may seem like these rights are granted to all of us as Americans, but unfortunately only a small segment of our society enjoys them and that segment is solely made up of whites. As for affirmative action, countless studies have shown that this policy benefits white women much more than it has benefitted blacks. When a sports broadcaster is hired and she happens to be a white woman, affirmative action has everything to do with her hiring. In that instance, the employer is making an attempt to diversify an all- white male workplace, whhich exists in most high-paying professions. I am an attorney and I know that my profession is dominated by white males. Therefore, when I read a law firm bragging about recent hirings of women in an attempt to sell itself, it is because of an ‘affirmative action’ that these hirings took place. More white women need to come out and be in support of this policy being that you are benefited the most by it. Racism, today, is so subtle that as a white woman it is very hard to see how you are the recipient of white privilege on a daily and minute-by-minute basis.

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Name : Sara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Catholic, Age : 26, City : New York, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : Attorney, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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