Can Dallas Allies Accept Privilege and Share Their Advantage?
We repeat, it does not matter if you were born “rich.”
If you were born white in a culture that favors whiteness, you have an advantage.
“I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in
each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible
weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools , and blank
checks.” (Dr. Peggy Mcintosh)
And with privilege comes the opportunity to offer those advantages to others.
“To redesign social systems we need first to acknowledge their colossal unseen dimensions. The silences
and denials surrounding privilege are the key political surrounding privilege are the key political tool
here. They keep the thinking about equality or equity incomplete, protecting unearned advantage and
conferred dominance by making these subject taboo. Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems
to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that
systems of dominance exist.” (Dr. Peggy Mcintosh)
That is where our College Pledge comes in…
Our college pledge project comes out of the knowledge that many people in Dallas were not just born white, but born wealthy white, which is double the privilege. It is not enough to say you are not racist- you have to use your advantage for others!