Have you ever heard of the term white privilege? In case you haven't, or if you're not sure what it is exactly, white privilege is the set of social privileges that benefit white people and that non-white people don't experience. If you're white, your first thought might be to say, “Well, that's not real. I don't have any special advantages that non-whites don't have. But it's real and you do it. When you get a paper cut and go get one of your “flesh colored” bandages, it will actually match your skin color because apparently light beige is the “normal” skin color for everyone. When you watch a movie, you can relate more to the people you are watching because you will share the same characteristics as most of them, such as having the same skin color. (It's true. A recent study showed that, out of 100 films made in 2012, white people made up about 76 percent of all speaking characters while people of color, combined, made up only about 23 percent.) When you fail at something in life, like getting a job or getting into college, you don't stop to think, "Is this because of my race?" White privilege is not something you like to have or can necessarily control, but it is important to understand what white privilege is because it definitely comes into play in our daily lives, including, and especially, news and other forms of information. average. The media, for as long as it has existed, has supported white privilege while simultaneously stereotyping people of color. The most important way the media, especially news outlets, does this is by supporting the achievements of white people in the same way they support alleged crimes by people of color. They want to criminalize people of color to make money... in the middle of paper... that is fed to us by the media. This is definitely the hardest way to do things, but there is power in numbers and even more power when those numbers are the people of the United States. We could leave the media powerless so that nothing they write matters because we already know who we are and refuse to fall into any kind of racial stereotype. One last thing I'd like to mention is that it's important to know that even if you're white and think racial injustice doesn't affect you, it actually does. It is also very important that you are aware of what is happening in your society because as a majority of people it is your duty to help the minority of people. Everyone, regardless of race, should be an advocate for social and racial justice because that is what it means to be a decent and good human being. So don't be ignorant and don't encourage ignorance.