Woman Shares All The Crimes She’s Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

Krista Vernoff is a TV screenwriter, showrunner, executive producer and director, best known for running the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. She’s also white. Which, according to Vernoff herself, has been her the most important mitigating circumstance every time she got herself into trouble.

So, to make a case for defunding the police, Vernoff tweeted all the times she escaped consequences due to her race. From drunk driving and stealing thousands of dollars worth of goods to beating people up, the woman shared it all and even inspired other people to do the same.

Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Woman Shares All The Crimes She's Committed Despite Having No Criminal Record To Illustrate White Privilege

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Vernoff said she was inspired to share the stories after learning about the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot during a struggle with Atlanta police after he was found sleeping in his car in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy’s.

Vernoff talking about white privilege would probably strike a chord with Frances E. Kendall, Ph.D. , a consultant for organizational change specializing in issues of diversity and white privilege. Kendall thinks this subject is extremely difficult for white folks to discuss because many of them don’t feel powerful or as if they have privileges others do not. “It is sort of like asking fish to notice water or birds to discuss air,” Kendall wrote. “For those who have privileges based on race or gender or class or physical ability or sexual orientation or age, it just is – it’s normal.”

Kendall thinks white people can — and should — try to engage in conversations about their privilege more often. “While people of color understand the necessity of being able to read the white system, those of us who are white are able to live out our lives knowing very little of the experiences of people of color. Understanding racism or whiteness is often an intellectual exercise for us, something we can work at for a period of time and then move on, rather than its being central to our survival.”

So, our dear readers, let’s do just that; let’s discuss white privilege in the comments. We are eagerly awaiting your thoughts on the subject.

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Tabitha L 4 years ago

While I understand the point this woman is making, she also sounds like a not so good person. I've never had any interaction with cops except for traffic stops (and visiting someone in prison). I don't punch strangers or steal thousands or drive drunk or do drugs. Her stories turn my stomach because of her flagrant disregard for other people.

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Chris Jones 4 years ago

Ikr? It's almost like those are normal choices instead of really crappy ones. I've never done anything like that either. Punching people and drink driving? Ugh. Okay, so she's turned her life around and hopefully making MUCH better choices. A black person is highly unlikely to have had the same chances she has had. She's been very privileged.

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

Yeah, but that's the thing, right? She's done so much s**t in her life that would have earned her a conviction of SOMETHING but she doesn't have any. Everyone was convinced that she wasn't doing anything worth ruining her life for, but others with darker skin or maybe less-fortunate genes would not have gotten the same chances.

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Catlady6000 4 years ago

Most of these seemed to happen when she was in her teens and very early twenties, when many of have no common sense. The only way it would make her a bad person is if she continued this behavior well into adulthood. Just shows another disparity between those with and without privilege. I have worked with a lot of POC in their mid twenties who had records for way less than what she was allowed to get away with.

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Jo Choto 4 years ago

And her point is, she was NEVER arrested, detained, charged or convicted for any of those offenses, whereas we know that black people have been shot point blank for less. This is her whole point!!!!!

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Munhu Afro 4 years ago

I thought it were several people responding to the thread she started. Different people including herself

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Jos Tiguidou 4 years ago

You're completely missing the point.

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Martha Meyer 4 years ago

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Pahulu 4 years ago

Y'all are missing the point so f*****g hard.

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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

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Daria B 4 years ago

A bit off-topic, but seeing what people say on various sites and articles on the matter, I have to say it. I think, rather than one group being privileged, it's more like the other group was denied basic human rights. It doesn't make the situation any better, but at least it shifts the focus onto empathy, instead of generating hateful over-analysis and competitions to who's more miserable. Language does matter, it really affects people's thoughts. (And I say this as someone legally qualified in linguistics, not as some random "angry Karen")

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Catlady6000 4 years ago

You make a good point. I find it very insightful. Unfortunately, privilege does figure in a lot, not just police, but in education, pay , healthcare, the legal system as a whole, etc. and while it's common across the board that those in lower economic groups to face these disparities, when you add in color, ethnicity, gender, etc. it's even more obvious and widespread

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Nia Loves Art 4 years ago

It’s true that the main issue is black people being denied their rights, but what’s described here in these specific instances is flat out special treatment.

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Marek Yanchurak 4 years ago

As someone who enjoys being a pedant, your distinction doesn't seem to diffrentiate things much. If anything, using your language, the solution would appear to be not to treat those with less privilege better (i.e shifting the focus to empathy*), but to stop being so forgiving to those who are benefiting from the privilege differential. -(*Which, however you look at things, I think we can probably agree that more empathy is indeed the solution, or at least a start to it)

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Firework 4 years ago

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Starbelly Eleven 4 years ago

I'm a white woman and I've been arrested and charged for shoplifting and drunk driving. I was assaulted by a cop in the elevator at the police station by a cop that wasn't my arresting officer. My arresting officer was there and did nothing. Every time I've gotten pulled over I've gotten a ticket. I'm not saying that privilege doesn't exist, but that it isn't consistent.

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Katie and Jared Coates 4 years ago

Sure! I went to jail and have a lot of tickets. But the ones where I SHOULD have been to jail, or gotten a ticket I did not. And it was because of my skin color in SC. Florida too.

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Tabitha L 4 years ago

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Chris Jones 4 years ago

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

21points

Catlady6000 4 years ago

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Jo Choto 4 years ago

And her point is, she was NEVER arrested, detained, charged or convicted for any of those offenses, whereas we know that black people have been shot point blank for less. This is her whole point!!!!!

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Munhu Afro 4 years ago

I thought it were several people responding to the thread she started. Different people including herself

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Jos Tiguidou 4 years ago

You're completely missing the point.

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Martha Meyer 4 years ago

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Pahulu 4 years ago

Y'all are missing the point so f*****g hard.

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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

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Daria B 4 years ago

31points

Catlady6000 4 years ago

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Nia Loves Art 4 years ago

It’s true that the main issue is black people being denied their rights, but what’s described here in these specific instances is flat out special treatment.

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Marek Yanchurak 4 years ago

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Firework 4 years ago

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Starbelly Eleven 4 years ago

23points

Katie and Jared Coates 4 years ago

Sure! I went to jail and have a lot of tickets. But the ones where I SHOULD have been to jail, or gotten a ticket I did not. And it was because of my skin color in SC. Florida too.

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