Elisa Mariño
2 min readAug 5, 2021

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Let's talk about thing we get just for being white: I'm not questioned for being in a nice neighbourhood. It is assumed that I have a right to be there. I can usually skip burocracia or get an easier time at job interviews because I'm assumed to be the "right background" (That is an euphemism that means white, by the way). If I'm a tourist at US, I'm not harassed or assumed an illegal immigrant, hell, I might even get job offers. Hint: that doesn't happen to other spanish speaking people who aren't white. I could go on about all the white privilege we have.

Sure, having privilege doesn't mean that everything is easy, perfect or that you don't need to work to achieve things, but certainly make things easier. And let's be honest, I wouldn't mind the freedom men get not having to worry about being harassed or raped. Walking home alone at night without fear of simple being able to speak your mind and ask for raised without being considered "difficult" and being instead considered "assertive".

You are uncomfortable with having privilege because you have fought for what you have and found difficulties in your path. But other people work as hard and get even less, because they have extra obstacles to overcome. That is life. It might not be your fault, but you benefited from that regardless.

Same to me, there are plenty of things I haven't even had to think about because my privilege. For example, I don't have to worry about how to afford hormones for a sex change because I'm cis. So simple and yet, a huge advantage. Not do I have to fight for the right to marry the person I love, because religion see my relationship as "natural" while others have to fight to be able to walk hand in hand with their lovers without being attacked.

There are plenty of things we don't have to care or worry, because we are white. Don't be a hypocrite claiming that that is not an advantage. For starters, white men don't have to worry about many of the violence other people suffer and that must be one of the biggest privileges there is, since living without fear is what makes you free. But, who knows? maybe to see you need the privilege that comes with being hones with yourself.

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Elisa Mariño
Elisa Mariño

Written by Elisa Mariño

Fiction is the art to tell lies to show truths. Politics is the art to use truths to tell lies.

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