My White Friend Asked Me to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest

So basically, unless you've experienced every bad thing that a particular person of colour has experienced, you have white privilege. Got it.

Racists come in all colours - I grew up in Africa and was a minority as a white person and experienced racism regularly. There are plenty of racist phrases I was called, and I was bullied for being white.

I worked in China and experienced racism every single day - my favourite being when I was stood in torrential rain for over an hour trying to flag a taxi and no-one would collect me, whilst native Chinese would stand for a few minutes and get a cab. The only way I could get one in the end was to wave money in the air and pay 10x the usual amount.

I worked in Tanzania where I was harassed by police most of the time I went out for a drive - at police checkpoints I would get threatened with arrest unless I paid a bribe (I was targeted because I was white - locals would get waved past). It reached the point where I had two wallets - one purely as a decoy with small notes so the police would only steal a smaller amount.

People my family knows have been murdered for being white.

And yet I will get judged by the colour of my skin and be told I have white privilege. Seems a bit racist..