Coal Miners And The Genesis Of My White Privilege

Coal Miners And The Genesis Of My White Privilege

Last night, the documentary film Harlan County, USA was shown on Turner Classic Movies and it got me thinking about my “white privilege”. The documentary follows the coal miners of Harlan County, Kentucky in their 1973 strike against Duke Energy. Although I am not a fan of unions, I am grateful to those coal miners. If it were not for them and their brave wives, mothers, sisters and daughters, I would not have my “white privilege”.

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