All the white people in the room, raise your hand. As I sat in a classroom at on Valencia College campus, I looked around as I and the other caucasians or predominantly caucasian people timidly raised their hand, fearing what was going to come out of the mouth Nyaniso Tutu, the teenaged granddaughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. You all have white privilege. This isnt a bad thing, you need to use it to make this world a better place.

The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation recently launched our Peace3 program on college campuses from Florida to California. With the young Ms. Tutu helping to lead the discussion, the focus of our recent Conversations on Peace has been on race and privilege, and it has gotten me to thinking about what this means.

There are many types of privilege and I am realizing that white privilege is actually something that is hardest to explain to those of us who actually have it. I remember thinking, If I look at my own life, my mother raised four boys on $18,000 a year - how is that being born into privilege? The reality is, white privilege has nothing at all to do with your socio-economic status. White privilege is something that is so deeply ingrained into our society, that for many of us, it can be difficult to recognize.

Think about Band-Aids. For me, when I put a Band-Aid on, the color is generally an approximation of my skin tone. But what about our non-white friends who get paper cuts?