Laurie Lippin

Exploring white privilege

Exploring white privilege

If you're white, you have almost certainly benefited from white privilege.

I know I have.

Recognising the specifics of our own experience of 'white privilege' is a step along the way to understanding the continuing impact today of the historical and systemic exploitation of non-European people and societies by Europeans and the societies they established in places like North America and Australia. I have been exploring my own white privilege, using a simple exercise.