Privilege describes benefits that belong to people because they fit into a specific social group. From watching the video I can say I was privileged because I grew up in a two-parent household where both of my parents worked hard to provide for my siblings and me. Growing up I had friends who parent/parents were addicted to drugs and their living conditions were like mine, I remember being told ” you’re so lucky to have parents like this”. When I was younger I didn’t appreciate the parents I had I thought they were controlling and overbearing but the older I got once I built a better relationship with them I learned to appreciate them more. My sibling and I never need for anything growing up, always had a roof over our heads and food in the fridge. Not everyone can say their childhood was the same way so that’s one way I feel as if I was privileged in life. I didn’t think I was privileged before watching this video because being Dominican and Jamaican, a female, and a bisexual female at that I dealt with a lot of oppression for how I looked. I’ve been working in the technology community since I was 18 years old and I get judged on the way I looked daily. For example, I was told by a customer before that they rather work with a male because I wasn’t “techy enough this is a male industry” and I just had to walk away. There was a time when I was working at T-Mobile in a middle east neighborhood when a middle eastern man walked in refused to work with me and ignored me because I was a female and wasn’t middle Eastern, it took my middle eastern manager to speak to him in the language to let him know it okay to work with me. The entire time I worked with him after I said anything he would look up at my boss before responding to me. I’ve been judged on the color of my skin, my tattoos, my sexuality, and my gender so I never felt as if I was privileged. After watching the video my definition of privilege is that it is unearned access or benefits granted to specific groups of people because they are part of a social group. Privilege can be based on a variety of social identities such as race, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, ability status, sexuality, age, education level, and more. Oppression is the unfair or cruel use of power to control another person or group. Oppression is often used about the oppression of minority groups such as women and racial minorities.