A Letter to White People About White Privilege from a White Guy

John Egelkrout
An Injustice!
Published in
7 min readMay 31, 2021

--

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash

Dear Fellow White People,

You have been under a lot of stress recently, and I understand that. I cannot fix everything that has been causing you to be upset lately. You’ve probably read about it in the papers or on blogs or heard people bring it up in recent discussions on race. That phrase that makes so many white people bristle unnecessarily is “white…

--

--

I am a sanity-curious former teacher who works a small organic farm with my wife. I write about politics, social issues, memoirs, and a variety of other topics.