Bike riding and white privilege

[OakLeaf]

"If I have to get you to see me as you in order for you to affirm my right to exist and my humanity—this is not solidarity. " - http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-c...#axzz3aUxYKpot

It's a perfectly fine illustration of PRIVILEGE, generally. "White privilege," not so much. Of course intersectionality is a buzzword these days, but this is a perfect illustration. Yes, drivers of enclosed motorized vehicles are privileged over all other road users. Yes, the lives of other road users don't matter in a meaningful way when it comes to majority attitudes and law enforcement. To equate one type of privilege with another - especially when one type of privilege is associated with genetics and the other with behavior - completely misses the point.

I think we all know people who are subject to discrimination in one arena, who completely fail to recognize their own privileges in other arenas. So in that sense, I think analogies like this are completely unhelpful, as in the quote above. Somewhere there's a video going around where a Black woman talks about intersectional privilege - acknowledging the privilege she has in being hetero- and cis-sexual as well as the privilege she lacks in being female and non-white. I'm having trouble finding my way back to it though.