Summary of " Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"

                                       "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
   In the credible author, Peggy McIntosh's, essay "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," she addresses the conflict of race in a different approach than most. Instead of taking an approach from the African American race, she addresses it from the opposite. McIntosh makes a list of 50 things that she can do and have because of her race. The points that she brings up throughout her essay, are ones that numerous people take for-granted. Throughout her essay, she talks of how white people have no consequences or at least how they do not have to think of those consequences after every action they make. In conclusion, Peggy McIntosh is trying to bring attention the privileges that numerous Caucasian people have taken for-granted.