by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 14, 2017 | Income Inequality
The Simplest and Most Perfect Explanation of Privilege I’ve Ever Seen Toby Morris, an Auckland based illustrator, has created a comic strip which can teach us an important lesson: that not everyone has the same opportunities in life. This is a short story about...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 28, 2016 | • Politics
What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege (Content Note: Racial slurs, racism) Yesterday I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 27, 2016 | Privilege, Racism
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 27, 2016 | Privilege, Racism
Dear Fellow White People Dear Fellow White People: The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games have brought to my attention that some of us still don’t quite grasp what white privilege is. Or, even if we do feel like we get the concept, it’s still difficult to fully...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 30, 2016 | Racism
I am disapointed but perhaps no longer surprised at how many of the people I know, the white people I know, still don’t think ‘White Privilge’ exists at all or if they do don’t really understand how common and pervasive it is. Please watch...