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when it comes to privilege,
I pretty much am it.

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I first noticed my privilege
when my family moved to an area

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called Sparkhill in Birmingham,
and I needed to sign up for a summer job.

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All my friends were getting summer jobs,
so I went to the Job Centre to sign on

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and I went in
and they ask you to fill out a form.

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And one of the boxes says, like,
what kind of work are you looking for?

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So I explained to the guy,

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I'm going to university soon, so
I'm not really looking for anything fixed.

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And he told me to write down the word
Sheperd, which basically meant it was like

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internal code for we don't need to bother
looking for work for them.

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And that was it.

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And no questions asked, done and dusted.

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And then the guy next to me
was having a very different experience.

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And he was British-Asian,
and they were asking him questions like,

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Oh, do you work in your dad's shop
and claim unemployment benefit?

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And they even told him not to overreach
because he'd asked for work

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in a solicitor's office,

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even though he was going
to study law at university.