Things that white privilege allows you to do
An open letter to white people
7 min readMay 7, 2020
Dear white friends and colleagues,
In David Foster Wallace’s parable, “This is water”, he tells a story of these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” The two young fish swim on for a bit, and then…