'White Boy Privilege' goes viral

Atlanta teen's "White Privilege" poem goes viral, Since the abandon that befuddled America endure week, a composition accounting and performed by an Atlanta jailbait this accomplished spring, has been accepting new attention. In fact, it has gone viral.

"White Boy Privilege" was an access in a academy balladry contest.

"To be honest I am afraid of what it would be like if i wasn't on the top rung, if the tables were turned, and I didn't accept my white boy advantage assurance blankie to assure me," Royce Mann recited at the balladry contest.

Mann's bulletin was a appeal from a 14-year-old white macho traveling to a clandestine academy in Atlanta: let anybody allotment his privileges.

"I adulation it because if I see a badge officer, I see anyone who's on my side," he recited.

Mann told CBS News he is just aggravating to be truthful.

"And that I wouldn't barter places with anyone," he said. "Because I anticipate a lot of humans aren't accurate about that."

Racial capacity seared America endure week. After Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Mann's composition addled a assumption online.

Many admired it. Others attacked him.

More than eight actor humans accept apparent it.

"Everyone should accept the privileges that I have," Mann recited. "Everyone's adventure should be accounting so all they accept to do is get it read... I get that change can be alarming but adequation shouldn't be..."

Mann said he is not allurement anyone to accord up their dreams.

"I am not allurement anyone to accord up their quality," he said. "When you see something that is wrong, that is discrimination, allege up."

He accomplished his composition with talking about fear.

"It's time to let go of that fear," he recited. "It's time to yield that ladder and about-face it into a bridge."

Mann won that balladry contest.
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