Jimmy Kimmel Reflects on His Own White Privilege on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

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Jimmy Kimmel grappled with his own white privilege during the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” opening monologue. He revealed that the first time he heard the term he was “defensive” and…

” opening monologue. He revealed that the first time he heard the term he was “defensive” and misunderstood what it truly meant.

Kimmel then cited a recent incident during the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests where a Black store owner in Los Angeles was being handcuffed by police instead of the looters they flagged down for the officers to reprimand.

 

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White privilege is a liberal myth used to ensure blacks portray themselves as victims and to make sure they view white racism as their major issue when it’s in fact fatherlessness and crime

White privilege is spending part of your career in blackface and then wokescolding the rest of us about white privilege

Is he the one who used to dress up in blackface all the time?

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