ABSTRACT
Responsibility Knowledge brings us inevitably to a crossroad. I have explored the nature of white privilege and the costs of white privilege to white people. I have considered many of the reasons why it is diffi cult for those of us who identify as white to see and accept that being white privileges us. I understand that white privilege operates at the systemic level, although its eff ects reach individuals, groups, cultures, institutions, and value systems. I know we did not create this system of white dominance; we inherited it. Hence we are not to blame for its existence or for the eff ects it has had on millions of people over centuries. But it is an undeniable reality-a sociological fact. If I choose to live in this culture, I have no choice about being in this system. Most of my life I lived in obliviousness, but now I know. My knowledge changes the game. It has changed me.
