Is “Brown Guilt” a Thing?

And it hit me .. “Do I have brown privilege?”

One day I was watching TV and one of my favourite programmes was on — ‘Black-ish’. I watched the Johnson family hire a new nanny and Dre (the lead male character) soon realises he has something called “black guilt”. Quick backstory (and assuming you haven’t seen this episode or the show, in which case I’d give it a quick Google search), Dre and his family are an African American family living in an upper class neighbourhood that is majority white. He has a great job in marketing, his wife is a doctor, his kids…