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MY CHECKLIST SKIN
MY CHECKLIST FULL

I can be pretty sure that if I argue for the promotion of a person of another race, or a program centering on race, this is not likely to cost me heavily within my present setting, even if my colleagues disagree with me.

I can be pretty sure that an argument with a colleague of another race is more likely to jeopardize her/his chances for advancement than to jeopardize mine.

I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance or feared.

I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race.

If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race.

I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the "person in charge", I will be facing a person of my race.

I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.

I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world's majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.

I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.

I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.

I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.

I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy of my race.

MY CHECKLIST FULL

I can talk with my mouth full and not have people put this down to my color.I can be pretty sure that my children's teachers and employers will tolerate them if they fit school and workplace norms my chief worries about them do not concern others' attitudes toward their race.I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection.I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.

MY CHECKLIST SKIN

Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair.I can be casual about whether or not to listen to another person's voice in a group in which s/he is the only member of his/her race.I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only member of my race.If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.As far as I can tell, my African American coworkers, friends, and acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact in this particular time, place and time of work cannot count on most of these conditions. I have chosen those conditions that I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographic location, though of course all these other factors are intricately intertwined. I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life. From McIntosh's Essay "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies", this list is what she calls the " Daily effects of white privilege." She states: This list is written by Peggy McIntosh, associate director of the Wellesley Collage Center for Research on Women.