What we mean when we say whiteness is a whole structure of privilege. I do not accept the thought of myself as being the bearer of this privilege. At the same time, she doesn't deny that it would be most difficult to move away from it. You don't just make one little moral gesture in your life, and you're suddenly no longer white. The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste, which took her ten years to produce, is hardly one little gesture.
Privilege is very attractive.
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