I honestly never read anything like the book, “White Privilege: unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy Mclntosh before. I didn’t think there were white people that thought this way at all. She compares white privilege to men’s privilege. In fact, in many ways they are similar to each other. I never noticed that men don’t have to work twice as hard as women do for anything. Whether it is at a job, school, sports,etc. Men don’t have to think “what if” or prove that they can get the job done without assistance. Women have to take everything into accountability. The type of clothing which might draw unwanted attention to them. We refrain from wearing certain clothes, because it makes us feel uncomfortable in our own clothes. Men never acknowledge how hard we have to work to get equal status as them. Same goes for white privilege, a lot of black people have to worry about certain things that white people haven’t even begun to understand. For instance, wearing a hat or a hoodie in the presence of a police officer, trying to get a job in an all white firm, or if you are going to see your mom again after being pulled over by police. Peggy McIntosh realized the different perspectives of what it means to be black and white. It’s like a picture was painted of one black angry violent person and that defines the rest of us. Black people are sometimes way nicer than white people are. To be quite frank two individuals could be the same.  Live the same lifestyle, listen to the same music, have a nice family, good respect and manners. The only thing that will be a little different is their skin tone. Hypotencially speaking, the white individual might look innocent while the non-white individual looks guilty. I also think racism occurs because black people are described to be mean, dark, scary, ugly or trouble. Whereas the color white is seen as nice, warm, safe, and beautiful. Therefore society defines a person based on their race, which is just a color. The privilege to be white means you are never a target.