White Privilege = Original Sin
Going philosophical on you. Original Sin and White Privilege.
If you are a Christian, you likely know about the concept of Original Sin.
When Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden — hey, have you ever imagined a world in which Adam and Eve had chocolate chip cookies with ice cold milk and didn’t bite into that apple (honeycrisp, likely)? — mankind was tagged with an ancestral sin that was fairly shared amongst all of us as collective guilt.
Here’s Michelangelo catching Adan & Eve in the act in the Garden of Eden.
[Note: The Snake, the perpetrator, seems to have womanly characteristics. No? Is that terribly unwoke to mention? If so, I apologize. Also, please take notice of the fact that everyone in the painting is white. This will turn out to be important.]
