I honestly wish this was a more open discussion. I grew up with pretty, white privilege, but nobody ever described it as such. Nobody told me that I would be handed things I didn't deserve just because of genetics.

I was not given any education or guidance around race. I wasn't told about why I was given the job over someone more deserving. I just thought I was lucky.

Unfortunately, it also meant that men thought I was born for their pleasure. I'm sure it's the same for every race, but looking back, being young and pretty and white - for me - meant being blamed for the sexual attention I got from men starting at 11 years old. Nobody gave me guidance on that either except for my mom's very general, "all men only want one thing."

As I've grown older and experienced the world I've seen more and more what being white gets you, though, and it's not lost on me that the pigment in your skin literally determines the trajectory of your life.

I'm a strong supporter of slave reparation payments because the truth is, the disparities we see today wouldn't exist if black people could have been building generational wealth while white people were enslaving them instead.

Generational wealth, trauma, disparate educational opportunities. How any white person can look past all that and act like we don't still benefit every day is beyond me.

I think I went way off topic there, but all that is to say that, yes, your article is spot on.