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Check your privilege

Our world is rife with inequity. A common set of rules don’t apply to everyone. One set of rules for the rich, a different one for the poor; one set of rules for men, and another for women; a set of rules for whites and a separate one for blacks. Through these means powerful people continuously subjugate and oppress less powerful people to consolidate their power. That power is privilege. Whether you see it or not, we are ALL guilty of perpetuating the inequities in our societies that often lead to the oppression of one group by another. We are complicit either by actively participating in the unequal treatment and discrimination of groups that are “different”, by “blissful” ignorance of the issues, or by denying that they exist at all and refusing to listen and learn - being so sure that things aren’t that bad (because you experience a different reality) so “the others” must be blowing them out of proportion. We have designed social systems that increase access to opportunities for ad

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