“If the idea is that black people cannot solve their problems short of white people developing an exquisite sensitivity to how privileged they are, then we in the black community are being designated as disabled poster children”

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I assume, for example, that the idea is not to teach white people that White Privilege means that black people are the only group of people in human history who cannot deal with obstacles and challenges. If the idea is that black people cannot solve their problems short of white people developing an exquisite sensitivity to how privileged they are, then we in the black community are being designated as disabled poster children.

John McWhorter, “The Privilege of Checking White Privilege”, The Daily Beast (15 March 2015) [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/15/the-privilege-of-checking-white-privilege.html]

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