Peggy McIntosh argues that white privilege is an invisible package of unearned assets that puts white people at an advantage. This text discusses the effects of white privilege on the lives of African Americans, such as being in the company of people of their race, being able to rent or purchase housing in an area which they can afford, and being able to go shopping alone. It also highlights the difficulty of finding parallels between racism, sexism, and heterosexism, and the difficulty of disentangling unearned advantage from other factors such as social class, economic class, race, religion, sex and ethnic identity. To redesign social systems, we need to acknowledge their unseen dimensions and raise our consciousness on the perquisites of being light-skinned.