Wow. White privilege at its finest....

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Privilege

                                                                                Dalia Mogahed

January 27, 2016

Today I boarded a plane from Texas with a white man wearing a T-shirt that read:

"The Second Amendment: The original Homeland Security" with a scull holding two guns crossed in its mouth.

I had two thoughts:
1. Wow. White privilege at its finest. I'm not sure people who don't have this issue understand the pains we take to *not* look threatening because it can cost us our flight, and for some their lives. Yet he felt totally comfortable wearing that T-shirt to the *airport.*
2. If I complained to the pilot about "not feeling safe" because of his openly pro-violence expression (not speaking a different language or praying) would this gentleman get kicked off the plane and face 13 hours of interogation about his political and religious beliefs?

The reality is if I had said anything the only one getting kicked off that plane was me.

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