'White privilege doesn’t mean your life hasn’t been hard. It just means the color of your skin isn’t one of the things that makes it harder.'
took time out of his monologue on Tuesday night to recognize his own white privilege and explain what it is to white people watching his show at home.
Kimmel explained how he's been living with a wrong definition of "white privilege," which is something he often associated with people like Trump and not himself. “I know that a lot of white people bristle when they hear the word ‘privilege,’ as in ‘white privilege,’ because there are millions of white people who didn't grow up with money, or a good education, or a solid family background, or maybe even a family at all," he said.
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