That&#x27;s great. Congrats. You worked hard, you lucked out a bit (we all luck out to some degree, once again this isn&#x27;t a personal attack), and you got ahead in life. You&#x27;re right to be proud of that.<p>White privilege isn&#x27;t saying you didn&#x27;t deserve any of that. It&#x27;s just about appreciating that, despite how it may seem to you, you had some luck with the dice, some luck that you wouldn&#x27;t have had, had you been black (once again, everything else being equal).<p>I&#x27;m not talking about a basic income (I do think it makes sense in today&#x27;s society, but that&#x27;s a whole separate issue).<p>&quot;Sending the elevator back down&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean giving out handouts. It doesn&#x27;t mean hiring people because of their gender or race. It doesn&#x27;t mean discriminating against white men. It means acknowledging your biases and working to counter those. It&#x27;s about giving others the same opportunities (specifically, the same benefit of the doubt) you had.