Alyssa Cooperman

1. White children can expect to be invited over to a friends house without parents or
caretakers making them feel uncomfortable or unwelcomed based on race.
2. White children can expect that teachers and more knowledgeable others will be the same
race as them most of the time.
3. White children can expect to receive credit for their accomplishments without it being
accredited to their race.
4. White children can expect to have emotional difficulties without it being attributed to
race.
5. White children do not have to receive a talk about how exactly one should act if
approached by a police officer. They can expect to be treated like a “normal” child.
6. White children can expect to turn on the TV and not see fatalities of people of their own
race most of the time.
7. White children can be disrespectful without it being attributed to their race.
8. White children can assume that if they are being excluded it is not due to the color of
their skin.
9. White children can expect to be surrounded by other children who look like them in
school settings.
10. White children can expect to receive an understanding response when questioning
authority.
11. White children can expect that the way their pediatrician or dentist interacts with them
will not be affected by race; they can expect that the treatment they receive will not be
less adequate than others based on their skin color.
12. White children can expect to find picture books with characters that look like them.