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White Privilege In The Film Fruitvale Station

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“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks” (McIntosh, 172). Black people have always been treated unfairly and still do to this day. This is eminent in the movie Fruitvale Station when Oscar got shot by the police for no reason while the white guy who started the fight did not even get questioned by the police. The white guy who caused the fight got away. White privilege has been existent for many years and still exists to this day. Of course everyone wants to be equal, so society has been taught to be oblivious to the fact that white people still have an advantage over blacks. People have been taught to not recognize white privilege to

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