My Experience With White Privilege

When I was 19 I went on an LDS mission to Guatemala. I spent two years there. I lived in 5 different towns and cities and saw a variety of landscapes and met a wide range of people. Everyone from wealthy business owners in the city to a single mother who lived in a one-room adobe building with her three children, a sow, and her piglets. I saw places full of hope and places that were ravaged by “development” and greed. I saw lines of people outside of sweatshops waiting for someone to be sick or late for work so they could take there place. On the other side of the sweatshop were pipes that…