Privilege: What's It Good For?

The article comments on the Jennifer Logue's notion of race privilege. In her essay, while Logue acknowledges the advantages and disadvantages associated with privilege, she, however, minimizes the latter. For one thing, she failed to characterize co-victimization resulting from oppression by the privileged. Any characterization of co-victimization that conflates the privileged with the victims does social injustice to the lived experience, despair and resilience of the latter. Second, her view of privilege as being both good and bad dissolves the relational meaning of the concept and fails to illuminate inequitable social systems.