A new definition for privilege of any race in the United States would be a believes that the police are here to serve and protect, and the idea that anywhere is safe. For me and so many this is not a theory. my criminal record consists of two speeding tickets in 58 years of life.
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The violence I know would scare most coddled humans and this is one reason I'm afraid to write Memoirs as people have asked because it would be so fucking shocking to the mild-mannered and well- born. And that violence came at the hands of my own family and those they let take me
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I'd lay odds that those of us who grew up with white and class privilege are a lot more likely to suffer violence from family than from police. And then there's the medical trauma from the assumption that women's medical problems are imaginary.
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Replying to @salliegoetsch
Those are excellent points as well we all bring different stories to the table I don't know what it means to be white but I do know what it means to be a woman and I do know what it means to be severely depressed and wake up to 6 police in riot gear surrounding my bed. Why?

Jan 29, 2021 · 9:08 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I would say that in a lot of ways I was coddled, and that being white and middle class in the Midwest had a good deal to do with why I ended up in a resort-like treatment center in the 1990s--no police involved.