While there are some topics that everyone agrees on, race still seems to be a sensitive subject for many of them. When it comes to race, each person possesses a different point of view on what it truly means, depending on his or her previous experience. Here in the United States, race is far more complicated. A perfect example that captures exactly how divisive the issue of race can be is white privilege. At first mention, the word can cause a feeling of discomfort. Although, it is not intended to do so. Overtime, the idea has gained awareness, which has led some groups to believe that white Americans are born more privileged than the rest of the population. In turn, this perspective is being met with a fair amount of criticism.
Similarly, the article Yes, You Can Measure White Privilege, published on The Root, attempts to address this aspect of the race issue. It argues that white privilege exists, but not in the way that people believe it does. Not only that, the author offers up all the ways that the privilege can be measured. So as to avoid confusion, Harriot makes …show more content…
His narrative does not come across as accusatory. While on the subject of white privilege, Harriot maintains objectivity and excludes his personal feelings from the article. When he mentions what white Americans might feel about the term, he does not veer off subject, nor does he inject his options concerning race into the mix. Countless times, he refrains from calling one side as superior to the other. For example, he asks the readers to not casually throw around the term white privilege, which might illicit “images of Caucasians sitting on plantation porches drinking mint juleps while they watch the Negroes toil in the Southern sun” (2017), because it should be reserved for actual, measurable cases of privilege. Harriot remains focused on his point by returning the attention back to the definition of white