Hello, Katherine. As I was reading you post and your description of the physical characteristics of a white person, " having white to light tone of skin, typically lighter shades in eye color, perhaps freckles, with varying shades of hair color," I had an epiphany. I saw the absurdity in the way people are perceived, treated, assigned status in society, the opportunities they have, and the power that comes with it. It dawned on me that all the privileges associated with belonging to a white race come down to the differences in the amount of a pigment in our skin, called melanin. It is mind blowing that whole political, economic, social and often religious systems have been created based on this small difference. Growing white, in all white
