An Illustration of Privilege

My sophomore year of college I shared an "apartment-style" dorm with my best friend Katy and three other girls. We had a kitchen, a living room, two bathrooms, and our own teeny-tiny bedrooms that were only wide enough to fit a twin bed. Like most college students, we decorated our rooms with things that mattered to us and expressed who we were. My favorite decoration was the one on the outside of my bedroom door, a black-and-white poster of Martin Luther King Jr. delivering, "I Have a Dream." A...