[sootzoo]

That's a great read too. Is the paraphrasing of Peggy McIntosh intentional? Her "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (http://ted.coe.wayne.edu/ele3600/mcintosh.html) is a classic in sociology and race studies literature, for anyone interested.

[gtank]

That was probably the proximate quote, but interestingly this has been a fairly common metaphor. Catullus is the oldest use I'm aware of, but I have no doubt it is older.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catullus_22

[danilocampos]

Entirely intentional. When someone related the concept to me, I realized I was carrying around a knapsack of my own, filled with things unusual for a hispanic person of my background.