Servrine snapshot showed just how much white people can’t relate to going through majority of the things people of color do. Not only that but just because something never happened to you doesn’t make it nonexistent. In Fact that is a very unfair way to think. White privilege gives people the green light to treat others that do not fit under that description like they don’t matter. Oftentimes when people of color bring up white privilege to white people they take it as they dont go through struggles or they have everything handed to them. When in reality it just means your skin immediately protects you and gives you an advantage above everyone else. To be able to walk on the street freely without constantly looking over your back, automatically being considered for a job without having to put in as much work, having a voice that can actually make a difference or even being able to say no. These are things that black people would get looked down on for doing or couldn’t even do. As someone who is black I can definitely say that white privilege is real because I’ve seen it my whole life. From Teachers playing favoritism to being the last pick for everything. Peggy made an interesting point in the text White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by saying “I want, then, to distinguish between earned strength and unearned power conferred systematically. Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.” (McIntosh). This made me look at white privilege in a whole different way because I never thought of it as “unearned privilege” but I came to realize that it actually is. Being borned white automatically gives you privilege and power that you did nothing to deserve. She then began to explain how “It is an open question whether we will choose to use unearned advantage to weaken hidden systems of advantage, and whether we will use any of our arbitrarily-awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems on a broader base.” (McIntosh). I feel as if this was a very good question to ask. Why have power and not do anything to try and improve the system ? Marilyn Frye touched on a similar topic in her article about women being oppressed. She made some interesting points that “If a man has little or no material political power, or achieves little of what he wants to achieve, his being male is no part of the explanation. Being male is something he has going for him, even if race or class or age or disability is going against him.” (Frye). This brings attention to how men are favoriotized over women and seen in this perfect light no matter what they do. Their gender plays no part in anything because men always had more of an advantage over women for simply being men. Meanwhile “Women are oppressed, as women. Members of certain racial and/or economic groups and classes, both the males and the females are oppressed as members of those races and/or classes. But men are not oppressed as men.” (Frye). I feel as if the point Marilyn is trying to make is that women are always oppressed as women. Whenever a woman does anything wrong her gender always plays a part yet men are oppressed under everything else but their gender.