Reading \u201cOppression\u201d by Marilyn Frye really opened my eyes and made me realize that I have privilege. Privilege is something that so many people around the world unfortunately don\u2019t have or don\u2019t experience it. I am now aware that I automatically have privilege because of what I look like and my skin color. I have close friends who don\u2019t experience the same privilege that I do and it saddens me when I think about it. When I\u2019m in a situation that isn\u2019t going to well, I have to think to myself \u201cthere are people in this world who have it worse than you and can\u2019t do certain things that you can\u201d. Every time that I am with my African American friends and we walk into a convenience store of some kind, I notice the employees body language immediately change and they begin watching intensively. The employees automatically think that my friends will steal from their store just because of the color of their skin and not based on the kind of person they are. Being friends with black people made me realize how hard their lives are compared to mine yet we are all human so it doesn\u2019t make sense to me as to why based on someone\u2019s skin color, they are portrayed as something so awful. I am so grateful for the privilege I have but sometimes I feel guilty that I have it and some of my close friends that I love dearest and I know wouldn\u2019t even hurt a fly, have to deal with oppression and discrimination. It breaks my heart that we all can\u2019t just be human and comfortably be in our different skin tones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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