Check your Privilege

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Black Lives Matter is changing how we think about personal
complicity. Yet we are still trapped within a reductive
framework: privilege. Anti-racist reading lists, teach-ins and
resources proliferate, spurring intense contortions of
“privilege-checking”.

Momtaza Mehri

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The language of white privilege obscures systemic inequality
by reducing it to individual actors – quite literally in the form
of the latest Hollywood PSA – and their willingness to
acknowledge their privilege.

Momtaza MehriProduct Designer, That Biz

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To the privilege-renouncer, there is little need to address an
inconvenient fact: the immense economic order that spans the
globe has historically needed a black underclass, both
domestically and overseas, to survive.

Momtaza Mehri

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“Checking” your privilege then
becomes a public exercise in self-flagellation, focusing on the
repentantly privileged while neatly obscuring how intrinsic
anti-black racism is to the world.

Momtaza Mehri