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When Do White People Realize They Have Privilege

Listen as two Black men discuss when white people realize they have privilege and the conversations they have with their white friends and coworkers in order to catalyze that realization. One of the men describes how he has approached conversations at his company because he is the driving force behind their BLM response. He shares that he has facilitated realization by talking about his male privilege and what that looks like and how it is similar and dissimilar to racial privilege. The other man shares that he’ll start talking to his white friends about this more and when they came to realize

I think for the vast majority of them it was like two weeks ago. I’m dead serious. They didn’t even know how to define it let alone that they have it and certainly not how it plays out.