White Privilege Knapsack

Page 1, "I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets...."
 This author, Peggy McIntosh says that white people have this invisible knapsack full of beneficial stuff. By this, to me, her point is that white people have all these privileges only because they are white. white people are looked at differently than non-white people. And that most white people are looked at highly. I agree because, not all cases, but i have heard many stories of where a white person was favored over a non-white person. For example, by the stories i have heard, i feel that when a white person and a non-white person apply to a job, people see the white person and assume that person is more qualified, responsible or overall fit for the job. even if the person didn't make that judgement on purpose, it is just a natural reaction because it is the dominant culture in our society.
 
Page 1, "As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage."
This sort of reminds me of the article Privilege, Power and Difference by Johnson. where Johnson says that the privileged need to realize that they are privileged in ordr for there to be a difference. White people take racism as harm to people who experience it and my realize how it affects them, but they don't realize how it affects themselves as well, even though to the white people it may not affect them in a negative way. alot of people do not realize that they probably only got the job because of the fact that they are white, and not because they are more qualified.

Page 2, "2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area that I can afford and in which I would want to live.
                3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in a such location will be neutral or pleasant to me."
I have an uncle in the army that is constantly being move to different states and countries. he said to me that people in alabama and where he currently lives, are so racist that he rents apartments in gated complexes and is constantly getting stared at by white people. and that in Alabama alot of stores would not accept him to buy things because they did not want non-white money. now my uncle is a light skinned man, but you can tell that he is not white. this is where white people are privileged because they would not have this problem. because even when my uncle is in uniform he gets treated different in certain places.

Point to share:
i agree with this article, because even though i personally have not experienced white privilege more than a few times, i know how often it is happening. there is a white privilege whether people notice it or not, or do it on purpose or not.