I thought this was a very interesting question, so I decided to use it for my Blog Post. No, I do not believe that all white people posses the same amount of white privilege. However, I do believe that all white people have access to the same amount of white privilege but some white people choose not to use the privilege. For example, I believe (or would like to think) that if many white people were aware of the fact that they were gaining some sort of advancement due to their privilege that their black peer was not, that they would not go for that advancement. One example that I brought up in class was if a white person got a job and a black person did not. I believe that you can measure white privilege by if a person is aware of white privilege (and chooses to go along with it, or not) or if a person is naive to white privilege and does something because they are unaware of their privilege. With the example I gave in class, I think is a white person got a job because he was white but he believes that he got the job because he worked hard and is more qualified that is not the same as if a white person got a job knowing that the only reason he got the job was because he was white and still accepting the position. I think the only way we can measure white privilege is if a person is naive to it or not. Because if you are aware that their s white privilege and you choose to ignore it and go with the flow than I believe you are being racist.
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