Privilege, What’s Yours? by Reyna Noriega

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We all have a superpower, do you know what it is?

Privilege.

Privilege is the tool by which we can save the world. It’s easy. You don’t have to do much to harness the power because chances are you were born with it or put in the position to receive it. But are you aware of it?  By it’s very definition, a privilege is a luxury and in most cases, we are able to take certain luxuries for granted.

We talk about white privilege a lot, but do we realize that to some degree, we all have privilege. By the very essence of its name, for it to be classified “white privilege” we would have to infer there are other types right?

So are you cognizant  of your own?

Because there are so many different levels to privilege, and so many groups one may belong to that determines said privilege, often times we go through life not really thinking about it. Not counting our blessings so to speak. Even as an oppressed group we internalize certain prejudices and then oppress another group and to me, its ludicrous.

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