A visual about the essence of 'privilege'

If you have never seen the video below, it is worth the 3-4 minutes of time. I'm posting this as we are all watching what seems to be the US imploding over the fact of systemic and institutionalized racism. We are all hearing and seeing on every social media platform and news broadcast the anger and frustration and fear that comes from another killing of a black man, George Floyd, by a police officer. And we are hearing about 'white privilege.'

This term does NOT mean automatically a white person is racist. What it does mean is that there are many aspects of our normal, everyday lives that we can go about our business without any negative consequences - but people of color often cannot do the same things we do, or have the same set of circumstances in their lives that many white people have that simply make life easier. None of us have control over what color of skin we are born into. Growing up as kids, we don't have control over the circumstances of the lives we lead. But perhaps a good and necessary first step is to recognize that the everyday 'normal' of many/most white people is not the same as the everyday 'normal' of many/most people of color. This difference in everyday normals every person must deal with goes to the essence of what white privilege means.

Obviously this is not about physics. It is much more important than physics - it is about both our individual and collective humanity, the difference between right and wrong, and about a learning and healing process our nation desperately needs so every single person can help make Martin Luther King's dream become a reality some day, when one is not judged by the color of one's skin, but instead by one's character.