People with white privilege receive justice while colored people receive injustice. White privileges are social benefits that white people and non-white people get to experience in society. This includes: having up to date school materials, walking down the street without being pulled over and questioned, and buying something without being questioned about your financial status. This is an issue within the black and minority communities because they are not treated equally as everyone else.
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Both situations are different but the concept of white privilege is there. They believe that regardless of the way someone looks, justice should be equal to everyone. White privilege is not a form of racism. Although it is biased towards people of color, white privilege is something that is apart of society. During Douglass’s time, it was normal for white children to know their own birthday because they were not slaves. Slaves deprived of some of these privileges was normal. With Gyasi Ross, he believes that, “White privilege is the inherent suspicion that people of color - and predominantly men of color - are doing something wrong”(5). In either situation justice was not going to be served because in a way it was not their privilege to have justice. If people argue that white privilege does not exist, then why are colored people not treated equally as everyone else. If justice will not give equal rights to every man and woman who deserve it, than white privilege still