How to Use white privilege in a Sentence

white privilege

noun

• Because, for me and a lot of Black people, that was an example of white privilege.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Songs about addiction, cancer, white privilege, being trapped in a small town, being trapped in a small mind, and the inevitability of death.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2023
• In this teaching, white privilege is like original sin.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• As Floyd’s death triggered a summer of protest, Cooper’s video continued to have its own impact, sparking discussion about racial bias and white privilege.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• To make a move like this, to hire the first-ever Black President, from within, after centuries of white privilege practices, requires bravery and leadership.
  — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
• Despite coming under fire for white privilege legacy admission practices, Harvard arguably has the strongest brand amongst any school in the world.
  — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
• Many in-flight squabbles are proxy battles over white privilege, male entitlement and the accommodation of mothers and children.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The essay discusses gun violence, Nashville protests, and white privilege.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
• The essay discusses gun violence, Nashville protests, and white privilege.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2023
• Swann, as a Black man, was accustomed to negotiating a world of white privilege, which deepened the antipatriarchy acuity of his drag aesthetic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, the girls deal with—among other afflictions—body-image issues, awful boyfriends, domineering mothers, and, of course, white privilege.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
• One suggested remedy for white privilege is to be actively anti-racist.
  — John MacCormick, Fortune, 9 May 2023
• Their ribald interactions prove genuinely funny at times, especially in a scene in which Xander takes his white privilege for granted while provoking a racist cop.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
• As that incident triggered a long summer of protest, Cooper’s video continued to have its own impact, sparking discussion about racial bias, white privilege and the power of social media to expose stories of injustice.
  — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• The coincidence of first lady Biden inviting a majority white runner-up team signifies white privilege.
  — Joseph N. Cooper, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
• In other words, even though the Persky-recall campaign aimed to raise consciousness about white privilege, the additional years in prison were disproportionately imposed on Black and Hispanic people.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
• An explainer on the Arizona Department of Education web site says mentions of whiteness, white privilege and white supremacy are all signs that critical race theory instruction may be happening.
  — Yana Kunichoff, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• Unlike Greta Gerwig’s toy-feminism, a marketing coup that sold misandry and ineptitude alongside vapid white privilege — all the more biased in its supporting cast of diversity tokens.
  — Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• The two discussed polarizing topics like white privilege, Critical Race Theory and wokeness.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024