In Peggy Mclntoshs The Daily Effects of White Privilege, she delves into how the white person is superior in society. She talks about how there are so many different situations in which certain races are not represented, while the white race is. She then show the benefits of being white, the privileges that go with it. She shows how she cannot be seen as a cultural outsider, how in every newspaper there are people representing her race, how she can overcome a difficult situation without being called a credit to her race, and how she can move anywhere and be sure that people of her race could be her neighbors. She brings up other examples, but the feeling I got from them all was uneasy. This made me realize that, as a white male, I never have to go through the emotional or social problems that other people of other races have to go through. I will never know what it is like to be denied something because of my skin color, and I will never understand what it is like to be looked at like a cultural outsider. This realization is disheartening, because it makes me feel like I am part of the problem, the problem being the social hierarchy of white males over people of different races. Peggy also makes a point in her article that in order for change to occur, people need to realize that there exists a great divide between the privileges of the white male and the privileges of other races. There needs to be a more united effort from everyone, including white males, toward equality. Peggys article and the article about drug tests for those on welfare have many parallels. The drug test article, found on salon.com, tells of how the United States has adopted a law that would allow the state to drug test its welfare beneficiaries, in order to determine if they should receive federal funding or not. One state that has adopted the law was Arizona, which stated that the drugs tests were needed and that they would save the state millions of dollars.