McIntosh

I have never really seen myself as privileged due to the fact I am WHITE, but I have known I am at an advantage because I am, to today's numbers, loaded. The fact my dad is rich allows me and my family to live in a nicer area. Race has never been an issue where I live, either. Education proved to be invaluable and those who were not educated were those people who had emigrated here from other countries and were forced to take lower wage, low skill jobs. I do know, however, that I am constantly the butt of jokes due to my inability to dance which is caused (according to every non-white person) by my being white. I have been called a cracker and whitey and a number of other names, but I would never think of calling another person of different heritage a name, not only because it is mean but because I run the risk of being called 'racist.'

Ali Nicolette