Is the Era of White Privilege Nearing an End in the US? | Truthout

Is the Era of White Privilege Nearing an End in the US? | Truthout: "If, on the other hand, some among us insist that the past is more than that - if we point out that the past is also one of brutality, and that this brutality, especially as regards race, has mightily skewed the distribution of wealth and opportunity even to this day - then the past becomes a trifle, a pimple on the ass of now, an unwelcome reminder that although the emperor may wear clothes, the clothes he wears betray a shape he had rather hoped to conceal. No, no: the past, in those cases, is to be forgotten."