Tall privilege
Financial privilege
Beauty privilege
Smart privilege
Talent privilege
Politically connected privilege
Athletic privilege
Stable family privilege
Moral privilege-taught good morals when we are young
Christian privilege
No substance abuse privilege
Work ethic privilege
Born in the US privilege
All of these type of privilege have an effect on your chances of success. But not one of them, or even the combination of them is the only determinant. It is hypocritical when a very successful black athlete or actor talks about white privilege; but they benefited from tall privilege, and athletic privilege or beauty privilege.
On the other side consider Johnny Manziel. He had white privilege, financial privilege, beauty privilege, smart privilege, athletic privilege, and stable family privilege yet he was still a colossal failure.
How many people are there around who had almost no privilege and were successful anyway?
Talk of privilege removes personal responsibility. We are all different in many ways including the type of privilege we start with. But we have an enormous amount of control in how we turn out. Everyone born in the US has a level of privilege that much of the rest of the world dreams of having. White privilege is just another way some people want to divide us and make it seem like others have it so much easier than we do. We know there is some truth to it; that makes it even easier to sell the lie that we are just a product of privilege instead of a product of our decisions.
