In “What My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege”, writer of the Western Michigan University honors thesis “Toward an Authentically Anti-racist curriculum” Jeremy Dowsett states he learned what white privilege was while riding his bike. Dowsett, who lives in the heartland of the American car industry, says gets put into a lot of different kinds of danger while. The first thing he states is people will do hateful things, like splash him or swear at him because he is in “their” road. Dowsett points out that most people don’t intentionally try to put him in danger but because of not switching lanes or giving him enough room it happens anyways. (986) Dowsett explains “I can imagine that for people of color life in a white-majority context feels
