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[LiberalArkie]

http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/what-white-privilege-really-means-an-anecdote

I want to tell you a story about the difference between knowing and understanding.
Over the weekend, my ten-year-old son and I had just finished eating supper at a diner near our house. The multiple TVs in the diner were all showing cable news coverage of the Ferguson situation. On the way out, we passed an African American mother talking to her son, a child around my boy's age, seated in a booth near the front door.

The boy asked his mother, "So I should just put my hands in the air?"

"Yes," his mother said. "Just put your hands in the air."

"If I put my hands in the air, will the police not shoot?" he asked.


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http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/what-white-privilege-really-means-an-anecdote

[CBGLuthier]

1. Read that a little earlier. It is a very good piece.