Female Comedian Jessie Kahnweiler gets a firsthand experience and understanding of her white privilege by getting away with attempts that could otherwise get a Black man arrested such as selling drugs to cops.
In the video below in which she published late last week, Jessie sets out to see if white privilege really exists by testing if her whiteness can help prevent her from getting arrested.
In the video, viewers will get a glimpse of Jessie's succeeding stunts that could otherwise enraged police officers and provoke her arrest. This included getting drunk in public while holding beer and acting intoxicated, trespassing, playing and swimming in a public pond in swim suit, assaulting an officer by hugging some on-duty police officers (including police Chief Charlie Beck.), indecent exposure by cartwheeling naked in front of a Chinese restaurant, and bum rushing mayor Eric Mayor Garcetti while on parade.
The most provoking clip of the video shows Jessie selling prescription drugs to police officers.
Instead of instantly getting apprehended and her drugs seized, Jessie only gets a reprimand from the officer - a stark contrast to Eric Garner, the Black man who gets brutally arrested for selling cigarettes last year which caused him his life.
"Those are prescribed drugs, and you are becoming a drug dealer by selling them," the officer explains.
Jessie then apologizes and simply walks away from the police without even a slap on the wrist.
The video also included Jessie's random interview with people about white privilege, which revealed more intriguing answers.
An elderly black man tells Jessie that you can get away with more stuff as a white woman. "And you know it."
In a report from CBC, the experiment of Jessie was described as humourous yet makes a powerful statement about white privilege.
Jessie sums everything up in her video intro, "Because I'm white, I have all of these privileges, and I get treated totally different by the cops than black people get treated".