Black privilege means those special rights and advantages blacks enjoy just for being born black!

Some examples from Twitter in 2013:

Trudy @thetrudz 26 Apr 2013, USA

#blackprivilege is knowing how caring Whites will inform you that “not all whites are like that” ON THE HOUR. They care about our memory!

Kokujin @Kaibutsu 25 Dec 2013, USA

@MentalOrgasm #WhatIsBlackPrivilege The ability to always have a store employee nearby – looking right around the corner.

Mychal Denzel Smith @mychalsmith 26 Apr 2013, USA

#BlackPrivilege is always having room on the sidewalk. Thanks to every single person who ever thought I was going to rob them.

The Negress @ericabrazelton 26 Apr 2013, USA

#BlackPrivilege is when you move into a suburb and whites immediately move out so you can have it all to yourself!

Zerlina Maxwell @ZerlinaMaxwell 26 Apr 2013, USA

RT @DoTPeRioD: #blackprivilege the self esteem boost you get when people are REALLY impressed that you speak ‘properly’.

Camara Mpinduzi @Pundit_AcadEMIC 26 Apr 2013, USA

#BlackPrivilege is having White men consistently tell me they want me to be the first BW they’re “with”! What an honor!

Atlegang Shole @JinJa_Shole 25 Dec 2013, South Africa

RT @QueenAraweelo: #WhatIsBlackPrivilege Having the superpower as a black woman to be both fetishised and undesirable all at the same time.

Baeroy Lindo @KayJayFDU 24 Dec 2013, USA

#WhatisBlackPrivilege Our Sistas being called ghetto for their B-Girl style, yet when a white girl jacks it, she’s called edgy.

♥Joyism♥ @LadyJUniQue 25 Dec 2013, USA

Being a part of the only group of people who is told that the way their hair grows naturally is unprofessional #WhatIsBlackPrivilege

Brotha Wolf @BrothaJamesWolf 27 Apr 2013, USA

#blackprivilege is to have people tell you “It’s just TV” but the same people will use it as a source as to how black people are.

Yemeya y Shango @MentalOrgasm 25 Dec 2013, USA

#WhatisBlackPrivilege Affirmative action helped White fem more than ANY minority yet it’s condemned for “reverse discriminaton” agnst Whites

Charlene Carruthers @CharleneCac 27 Apr 2013, USA

#BlackPrivilege is supporting a political party (and candidates) year after year, AND not “being owed” anything.

D.I.Y Beats™ @Diy_bEatZ 25 Dec 2013, USA

#WhatisBlackPrivilege having your mayor and school district shutdown 23 schools because of no money but then build a prison

Jane Doe, MD @DrJaneChi 26 Apr 2013, USA

——> RT @jordanbks: #blackprivilege is always meeting the police description

Baby Huey….Newton @the_illist_95 24 Dec 2013, USA

#WhatIsBlackPrivilege being stopped& frisked down the street from your home cuz you &your friends stole a car even though y’all were walking

Son of Baldwin @SonofBaldwin 26 Dec 2013 2013, USA

#WhatIsBlackPrivilege Using drugs at the same rate (or less) as white people, but being 4 times as likely to get arrested for it.

Friday Foster @MinoWarrior 25 Dec 2013, USA

#WhatIsBlackPrivilege The fact a whopping 63% of the prisoners freed by the Innocence Project are African American.#TheNewJimCrow

Mack Lyons @DDSSBlog 26 Apr 2013, USA

RT @PupsherLive: #blackprivilege is being shot by cops 41 times while pulling out your wallet to show ID. #Diallo

INegro Montoya @AnimainSparkstr 24 Dec 2013

#WhatIsBlackPrivilege having to rely on social media to spread the word abt the murder of ur ppl bcuz the mainstream media doesn’t care.

Source: Twitter: #WhatIsBlackPrivilege, #blackprivilege (2013). Country of origin comes either from the person’s profile or from the thing they are talking about.

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