2014:98, offers a question “what does it mean to have white privilege.” Personally, I never believed so much in the notion of white privilege in the past until one day it affected me. Last week I went to Montreal on a trip and wanted to take my girlfriend out for a nice dinner. Two weeks prior, for reservations, I emailed a restaurant with my full name to request reservations. A week passed and the restaurant never responded to me. So I sent another email with the exact same message but changed the name to my girlfriend's. A few hours later the restaurant returned and my reservations were confirmed. This incident really showed that because his name was that of a "white" person, the restaurant allowed him to dine there. White privilege exists, but as Mclntosh in Robbins et al. 2014:98 states: "White privilege is like an invisible, lightweight backpack filled with special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothing, tools, and black.