Laura Johnston mentions in her Feb. 8 column that she enjoys “white privilege” because she has blond hair and blue eyes (“How white privilege plays into immigration enforcement“). It’s too bad some in the media forget that not all white people are privileged. My mother is white, she was in a concentration camp as a child, and grew up with dirt floors.
Her parents and grandparents came to the United States legally and never had a government handout. They worked and worked. My mom raised two sons while working two and three jobs.
Before she passed, she told me she was raped in a bus stop coming from a morning cleaning job. Does that sound like white privilege? Just go to the areas where poor people live who are white. Does that look like white privilege?…