If it were my first time reading this article on white privileges being an “unearned asset” I think I would have been surprised. However, this is a concept I have heard of before. If one were to look at our society from an institutional perspective, one can realize that almost everybody is born with some kind of “unearned asset”, a privilege that will put one in advantage over others. As a person of color myself, I still possess “unearned assets” simply because of the fact that I am a male. Living in a male dominant society, I have an advantage when applying to big name corporations and people also have assumptions of my superiority over females, simply because, I am a male. “I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious.” If I were to take this sentence, quoted by Mcintosh, and replace the word “white privilege” with “male privileges”, the sentence would still be accurate, and it would make sense according to the institutional system that we live in. In high school, I gained a lot of experience with community activism, especially within the Asian American community. One of the essential things I learned was that racism can be encompassed by the idea of power and privilege within a society. However, this idea can relate to almost any “ism”, be it classicism, sexism, agism, etc. When I first learned that everyone is born with a certain privilege and puts others at a disadvantage, I refused to believe that I was born an oppressor, but the fact is, as long as we are living in this institutional system almost everybody is born with a privilege. According to Rinku Sen, “Racial justice is about changing the rules of society according to a set of standards: resisting discrimination and violence, not abiding huge disparities, and expanding the role of government to protect economic, social and political rights”. We are born with privileges that automatically make us the oppressor, unless, there is a change in the “system” where people aren’t put into a disadvantage, and people aren’t discriminated against based on certain qualities.