What Does It Mean to Be Privileged

By January 11, 2013

You must read Jamelle Bouie’s excellent (and short) essay, “What Does It Mean to Be Privileged.” He sells his friend a TV and wants to carry it a few blocks to her house at night. But he decides not to, because: He’s black.

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