Privilege is a status or ranking in which someone gains, not through personal achievement or sacrifice, but through an unearned clause, like race, money, family name, etc. I feel like growing up where I did, in a rural area, where things tend to slow themselves to almost a reverse in terms of change, I had opportunities that my black peers did not. Certain businesses were basically "segregated" for lack of a better term. These establishments, mostly restaurants, had been open for almost fifty years and it some ways were the same socially as they were the day they opened. There were no actual policies or rules that said so, but blacks never frequented these places. This fact never even crossed my mind until I was in tenth grade. I played football and on gameday we would always have a pregame meal, either at school or at a restaurant. One Friday we found out that pregame meal would be at one of these restaurants that I've described. The reactions of my black teammates opened my eyes. None of them had ever set foot in this place and they were very uneasy in doing so. Most were noticeably nervous. The employees seemed to have a feeling of confusion in just seeing black people in the restaurant. The whole situation really floored me because I was unconscious of the situation before. This unconsciousness to the situation bothered me and I've taken with me since. I don't feel the restaurant was specifically prejudice or racist, but a lack of change on their part had built this social segregation. I feel like there are social privileges that some of us enjoy that we never realized and this can definitely create social gaps in our society.