This Poet's Powerful Explanation Of 'Black Privilege' Will Give You Chills

"Black privilege is a myth, is a joke, is a punchline, is a time a teacher asks a little boy what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said alive." This is just one of the chilling and painfully honest statements poet Crystal Valentine delivered at the finals of the 2015 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in April. In a video published to YouTube last week, Valentine -- a talented performer, activist and student at New York University -- powerfully expressed the raw emotions and experienc...