Do I Have White Guilt?

<p>Recently, someone on&nbsp;<strong>Medium</strong>&nbsp;asked me if I have &ldquo;white guilt.&rdquo; One way to respond to this question is that I had nothing to do with being born the way I am. I happen to have &ldquo;white&rdquo; skin; I also happen to be half-Jewish and half gentile.</p> <p>But in the deeper realm of understanding privilege and the world in which I grew up &mdash; 1950s and &#39;60s small-town Alabama &mdash; then yes, I have an abundant supply of guilt. I had a good childhood; I was raised in an intact, though dysfunctional in its own way, family including my maternal grandmother. And I was a middle-class white person which gave me advantages like being able to walk anywhere I wanted and enter any establishment I wanted without being viewed with suspicion or hostility (at least until I grew my hair past my shoulders).</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-memoirist/do-i-have-white-guilt-919cf107ff91"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>
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