WALSH: White Privilege Is A Myth. Here’s How Privilege Really Works In America. 

A few months ago, a region of our country was devastated by massive flooding. Entire neighborhoods were under water. Footage of the damage looks almost Biblical. But you probably hadn’t heard of this natural disaster, and the reason you hadn’t heard of it is probably because it happened in Eastern Kentucky. 

Many of the homes destroyed by the catastrophe were trailer parks. Many of the affected communities were poor rural towns. The misfortunes suffered by the people in these areas very rarely attract the attention of anyone on the outside, which is an especially egregious oversight considering their misfortunes are so numerous.