There is a fine line between striving through advantages, and struggling through disadvantages. According to Fortgang, Checking My Privilege: Character as the basis of Privilege highlights his personal pride of his ancestors, and their fortitude journey forward, generation by generation, into a better life. It all began decades ago, when his grandfather and grandbrother fled for Poland to avoid the Nazis, and his grandmother died after being weakened from a death march, and concentration camp. From as long as he could recall, his great-grandmother and aunts and uncles were and will always be Holocaust victims. Later on, his grandfather had to work and support four children, while sending them to Jewish school and City College. To keep up their reputation, his father had to determinate through City College, to get his son to where is he now, at Princeton.…show more content… Still, his family’s legacy was built to the point of breaking, bruising, and bleeding, and claiming him under a certain exemption, would create for him a false identity. Regarding Fortgang views that being under the white privilege, is a negative label on his soil, because deep inside through the dirt is a story that invoices greater than his skin color and race. However, others consider him over reactive to the judgements of society, and state that he must respect his place in society, especially since not everybody is opportune. Dear Privileged-at-Princeton:
