White Privilege

         I do realize this is a bit late seeing as we watched and talked about the Tim Wise lecture the past two classes, but I did want to get something down before the subject became too old.  As many of the other people on here have said about said lecture, I would first like to start out by saying that Mr. Wise is quite the entertaining speaker.  There was not one point in his whole lecture where I was not interested in what he was saying. 
        Obviously, however, this post isn't going to be all about how great of a orator he is, but rather I was intrigued by this idea of "white privilege" and how it has been a part of my life that I never noticed until now.  This idea that, since I'm white, that I will never be judged for my actions based solely on my race.  This is something that has never crossed my mind in all this time leading up to hearing this lecture.  Hearing about this privilege got me thinking, how many times has me just being white affected my life in a way that is similar to some of the things he mentioned in class?  Even when I sit and really think about this, I can't come up with an answer to that question mostly because it's hard to tell when that "white privilege" really comes into play.  And yet, at the same time, I don't really feel that guilty about it.  I guess it's kind of hard to feel guilty about something you didn't even know existed till a few days ago, even though it's been a part of your life since you were born regardless of if you noticed it.  As much as his lecture got me thinking and reflecting on certain aspects of my life, I did have one complaint about it.  Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention, but it seems he never mentioned how we could fix this issue of "privilege" that seems to plague this country.  He gave solutions to certain problems, such as the example he gave concerning New Orleans, yet he never suggested how we could solve the problem as a whole.  I certainly think that's something that should be discussed.  I think more than just acknowledging the issue, we should try our best to solve the issue as best we can.  I definitely think this is something we should think about going forward, what are some possible solutions to this problem, if any, and how could we start incorporating these solutions to start "fixing" things?