Still Confused about White Privilege? Let This Eighth-Grader School You

This kid is spittin' truth.

Eighth grader Royce Mann is going viral, thanks to a poem about white privilege he wrote and recited at a school contest.

"Dear women, I'm sorry. Dear black people, I'm sorry. Dear Asian-Americans, dear Native Americans, dear immigrants who came here seeking a better life, I'm sorry," Royce began. "Dear everyone who isn't a middle or upper-class white boy, I'm sorry. I have started life on the top of the ladder while you were born on the first rung."

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Mann took first place for the poem during a slam poetry competition at The Paideia School in Atlanta this past May. He went on to talk about the differences between his life and the life of women or people of color, illustrating in simple, heartbreaking detail the privileges he enjoys thanks to his gender and race.

"I know it wasn't us eighth-grade white boys who created this system, but we profit from it every day. We don't notice these privileges, though, because they don't come in the form of things we gain, but rather the lack of injustices that we endure," he concluded.

Mic drop.

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