A Walk Through My Own White Privilege
16 min readJun 24, 2020
The extent to which I’ve benefited from my skin color is too significant to measure.
My friend knew we’d made a mistake based on how long it was taking to get to the next stop. He had forgotten that the 2/3 veered East after 96th Street, rather than continuing north up Broadway. I was a high school senior, making a college visit. He was from New York but the suburbs, not a regular subway rider.
