Felicity Huffman got 14 days for paying $15,000 to have her daughter’s SAT scores boosted, or as a Hollywood starlet might say with a legitimate SAT vocabulary word, augmented.
Huffman could have just gone the legal route and paid for legit exam prep classes. But then her daughter would have had to do some work. And a high score would not be guaranteed.
Enter Huffman’s White privilege. Not only was she able to afford the exam prep. It allowed her daughter to skip the real work of learning. She could have the scores fixed. She was paying for a “sure thing.”
And when Huffman was finally sentenced, her skin color combined to make her even more privileged. Uber-privileged.
That’s why many people are still upset about the sentencing of Huffman, the prime time star in the Operation Varsity Blues scandal. Fourteen days? That’s it?
Immediately, stories of people of color like Crystal Mason surfaced.
Because of Trump Suck– the sound of the dwindling news hole being swallowed up by the inanities and incompetence of the current White House resident—you probably haven’t heard much about Mason’s ongoing case in Texas.
