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Cannon Press. The Grace of white privilege, Monday, November 18th, 2019 by Douglas Wilson.

Introduction

I went back and forth in my mind about the title of this little thing.

It came down to intersectional privilege or white privilege,

even though I was going to make the same basic points either way.

And so naturally I asked myself, which one would be more inflammatory?

Ha ha, he joked.

I have ventured into this territory before, so more background on these musings, if you

need it, can be found on Doug Wills.com.

A brief cautionary note, however, these non-No quarter November posts might have some reasonable

qualifications inside them, so forewarned is forearmed.

A little DNA data. Before getting to it, if I want to talk about my white privilege, the very first thing to do is to establish my bona fides.

As a result of the intrepid work of our friends over at ancestry DNA.com,

it appears that 63% of my stock was the result of various flirtatious mashups, some of which were probably not a good idea at all.

In Northern England, Wales, the Scottish lowlands, and Northern Ireland.

Ireland and Scotland contributed a distinct 27%.

Germanic Europe chipped in with 2%,

and Norway weighed in with 8%.

With a possible dollop coming from Iceland.

Iceland.

All of this is to acknowledge, as I hope I'm doing frankly and without guile,

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