“Explain to me what white privilege is,” late-night host Jimmy Kimmel asked last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live guest Chelsea Handler, who was there to promote her new Netflix documentary Hello Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea. Fielding a simple yet loaded question right off the bat, Handler answered candidly: “I always thought it was a certain group of people that get into Harvard or that get into Yale or have rich parents… but it’s a privilege to go into a grocery store and not be stared at, to get pulled over and not worry about whether it’s a life or death situation.”
To examine white privilege and dig deeper into her own experiences, Handler travels across the country in the documentary to talk about race with a wide range of people, including a Republican women’s group in California, comedians Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart, and college students.