Dr. Seuss wrote The Sneetches in 1961 — two groups identical in every way that matters except a meaningless star on the belly, and that mark decided who got invited and who watched from outside. Nobody earned it. It just decided everything.

So let's define white privilege honestly, because the definition is where we lose each other. It doesn't mean your life was easy. It means you get to do ordinary human things and let your actions determine how people react to you. The same things — driving, shopping, jogging, existing — I have to do carefully and above and beyond just to get the baseline humanity you get automatically. When a basic right costs me extra and costs you nothing, for you it stopped being a right and became a privilege.

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