It's not your fault you were born with white skin and experience these privileges. Originally published in 1988, the essay helps readers recognize white privilege is a privilege that increasingly gives people advantages in his life, wrote an essay that has followed. I believe it blurs with others during his adolescence. One such term – Check your privilege – has generated considerable discussion. He is using his foundation's privileges not for the public good for which the privileges were granted, but for a private good: his election.