"White Privilege" has undoubtedly helped me to a certain degree at points in my life, however its exposed me to ridicule in others.
   
  Living in a very white catholic neighborhood  meant all the white kids attended the catholic schools and the families who weren't catholic and the minorities, in my case south Asians, all attended the local public school. My experience being one of 4 white male students of 100 (in my grade), in a very much Sikh dominated school was that I should try and remain as small as possible. The fear wasn't of physical abuse, however it could and did escalate to that rather quickly, but I was more afraid of acting out of line culturally to what they were expecting of me. I was forced to learn how to speak certain phrases in punjabi, or learn about their religious traditions to avoid saying anything that they could deem "offensive". Or always being afraid to stand up for myself, my ideas or my beliefs simply because they were contradictory to the cultural standard the Indian classmates followed.

   As for this having to do with "white privilege" I honestly believe that although this was in elementary school ,l it now speaks loudly to me of the level of racism caused by insecurity every human is facing. We all fear the unknown, we all fear the implications of our actions, or the shattering of our beliefs, and we are quick to extinguish anything contrary to what we are accustomed to. "White privilege" isn't as cut-and-dry as, "Being white makes life easier." What it means is that its ingrained in us to believe white people set a standard and everyone else is the unknown trying to achieve the standard.
   
   I happen to be a white male with no criminal record, decent school grades, strong work ethic on the job, and I'm friendly and conversational. From that sentence, the things I think have the biggest impact on my life and how I am treated isn't, "I am a white male" its the characteristics that follow it. And the reason these characteristics are the ones I picked specifically, are because these are the ones that society has taught us to value most, and historically we've been told to believe that people of color don't exhibit these characteristics. So as a society we're scared to open our minds to the idea that everyone has the ability to achieve the same things, act the same way, and communicate equally.We have yet to grasp the fact that skin color isn't an identifier of anything other than the level of melanin in our bodies. White privilege is present and its simply an extension of the closed-mindedness, and fear of the unknown or changing that every human is a sufferer of.

 So although I happen to be a beneficiary of "white privilege" how it has effected me in my life, is through subjecting me to racial discrimination from my classmates, and allowing me to see how as a whole all our racist beliefs stem from our ingrained insecurities.

Sry for errors.

Ill be sure to check that out tomorrow. I have a great appreciation for films and literature that aims to humanize the ones under the most scrutiny