By Peter White Television Editor Jimmy Kimmel has revealed how he opened up to his own white privilege in a sensitive monologue on his ABC late night-talk show.
The presenter addressed the issue as protests continue for an eighth day following the killing of George Floyd. “I know that a lot of white people bristle when they hear the word privilege, as in white privilege, because there are millions of white people – who did not grow up with money or a good education or a solid family background or maybe even a family at all.
So, when they hear the word privilege, they go ‘what privilege? I grew up with nothing. I work hard. I earned what I have. Nobody gave me anything’.
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