White in sentence

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In these ways and more, black women persevered despite deep hostility from white women in the movement, and at great political and physical risk.

Inez Milholland, the woman on the white horse, campaigned constantly throughout the United States, despite suffering from chronic health problems.

For example, they could be three types of privilege: rich, white and male.

So then at the next level, we have rich white people.

Here we have white male people.

Then we have rich, white and male.

So here we have rich, white non-male people, to remind us that there are nonbinary people we need to include.

Here we have non-rich, white male people, rich, nonwhite, non-male, non-rich, white, non-male and non-rich, nonwhite, male.

Sometimes people mistakenly think that white privilege means all white people are better off than all nonwhite people.

But that's not what the theory of white privilege says.

It says that if that superrich sports star had all the same characteristics but they were also white, we would expect them to be better off in society.

For example, rich white women are probably much better off in society than poor white men, and rich black men are probably somewhere in between.

Because rich, nonwhite non-men might well be better off in society than poor white men.

They're definitely better off than poor, white, unemployed homeless men.

And this has helped me to understand why some poor white men are so angry in society at the moment.

In our original diagram, rich white men were at the top, but if we restricted our attention to non-men, we would see that they are here, and now the rich, white non-men are at the top.

So we could move to a whole context of women, and our three types of privilege could now be rich, white and cisgendered.

So now we see that rich, white cis women occupy the analogous situation that rich white men did in broader society.

And this has helped me understand why there is so much anger towards rich white women, especially in some parts of the feminist movement at the moment, because perhaps they're prone to seeing themselves as underprivileged relative to white men, and they forget how overprivileged they are relative to nonwhite women.

For example, I know and I feel that as an Asian person, I am less privileged than white people because of white privilege.

But while white trans suburbanites were forming their own support networks, many trans people of color had to carve their own path.

You can be young or old, married or single, black or white.

The white picket fence, the perfect house.

So you see those sort of diagonally running white lines.

But instead of his wife, he found a giant white serpent with a bloody forked tongue in the bed.

Freitas has a design for a robotic white blood cell.

I think I turned white reading this email.

But there are also extreme differences, often between millennials of color and white millennials.

Research done by the Washington Post in 2015 about this supposedly "woke" group found that 31 percent of white millennials think that blacks are lazier than whites, and 23 percent say they're not as intelligent.

And with countries like India, China, Indonesia and Brazil, along with the United States, accounting for 50 percent of the world's millennials, it's clear that the white, often male, heterosexual narrative of the millennial is only telling half the story.

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