Stuff White People Say

When we talk about “privilege” one thing we mean is that it can be easy to miss the little everyday indignities or challenges minorities face when you are not yourself a minority. I remember reading an article written by a black alumnus trying to explain to his white brothers and sisters in Christ what it was like to be a minority at an evangelical college. He talked about all those little things, things white students may not even notice, and how they pile up.

I thought these videos did a good job of drawing attention to some of these little things by turning them around.

Of course, it’s important to remember that turning comments around isn’t a perfect approximation of their impact, because it can lose some of the original impact—calling a white person a “cracker,” for instance, does not have the same impact as calling a black person the N-word. This is part of why “but I wouldn’t mind it if” is irrelevant for these kinds of things.