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Privilege  Posted By David Horowitz and John Perazzo On December
21, 2012 @ 12:55 am In FrontPage | 170 Comments  Order your
physical copy by clicking here  Black Skin Privilege and the
American Dream  When a Neighborhood Watch guard shot Trayvon
Martin in February 2012, a chorus of civil rights activists
concluded that he had been killed because of his race. Michael
Skolnick, the political director for hip-hop mogul Russell
Simmons, spoke for the consensus in an article he titled, “White
People You Will Never Look Suspicious.”  I will never look
suspicious to you. Even if I have a black hoodie, a pair of
jeans and white sneakers on … I will never watch a taxicab pass
me by to pick someone else up. I will never witness someone
clutch their purse tightly against their body as they walk by
me. I won’t have to worry about a police car following me for
two miles, so they can ‘“run my plates.”’ I will never have to
pay before I eat. And I certainly w