NYC author Tracie McMillan calculates exactly how much white privilege and ... trends now
A Brooklyn-based journalist calculated exactly how much racism and white privilege has financially benefited her down to the last cent - coming in at a whopping $371,000.
In her new book, 'The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism,' author Tracie McMillan claims that being white has created a benefit worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
McMillan derived the number, in part, by tracing the amount of money she's received from her family over years, money she claims her family was able to save up over generations because of their whiteness.
Figuring largely into her final sum were educational loans that she received from her grandfather, totaling at $52,784.33.
McMillan, a graduate of NYU, where she studied political science, contends that her grandfather was able to give her this money because he had been able to accumulate wealth over years thanks to his whiteness.
In her new book, 'The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism,' author Tracie McMillan claims that being white has created a benefit worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
She argues that her grandfather's wealth was rooted in benefits accrued from the GI Bill, a post-World War II piece of legislation that helped military veterans attend school and receive job training.
The Brooklyn-based writer argues that the GI Bill 'heavily favored whites,' and therefore benefited her grandfather at the expense of non-whites.
McMillan also received $40,384.72 as an inheritance from her grandfather, which, again, she contends was money that was owed to her grandfather's whiteness.
She also received $15,086.74 from her parents, which she referred to vaguely as a gift. McMillan, in a graphic posted on her website, fails to elaborate on why this 'gift from parents' was attributable to their whiteness.
The writer also cites 'avoiding foster care' as a consequence of her whiteness, which is an assertion that almost suggests that all non-whites are automatically in foster care.
She puts the value of avoiding foster care at $15,771.37.
But McMillan claims that the money she's received from her family is only one
