Argument to Check My Privilege by Fortgangs
Having Privilege has always been a controversial issue that hasn’t been discussed enough throughout history; Privilege gives advantages or immunity grants to particular people or groups of people. An article published by Tal Fortgangs titled “Check My Privilege: Character as Basis of Privilege” tackles on the subject matter of checking his own privilege in a strong, blinded, single-sided, opinionated style of writing to express his feelings and family struggles to obtain their privilege and what one and their ancestors have to go through to obtain this Privilege we all desire and want. In this article Fortgang beings by talking about “Checking his Privilege,” which rephrases to explore how you …show more content…
His arguments seem to fall flat because he seems to ignore the fact that even though his grandparents came to America with no money and not knowing the language he did have one characteristic that helped benefit him and prosper in America and that is his skin color. The system of society has Fortgang colorblind because even though his grandfather came from another country his characteristic presented him as a White Male, which is the dominant race in America. Begin seen as the dominant race quickly opens up doors to great opportunities such as receiving citizenship and job opportunities with less/no struggle, compared to someone of color who doesn’t know English. People of color have a much more difficult time trying to gain citizenship or even simply find a job to put food on the table, let alone make enough in order to put their children through college. This is an issue because racial profiling and discrimination exist in America and we don’t like to admit it but we are all color blinded by it. If you are not a white male you are not equal or aren’t given the same opportunities as someone who is of the dominant race. Fortgang said that his grand father had nothing when coming to America but that’s not correct because he already was given certain privileges just based on his skin
Having Privilege has always been a controversial issue that hasn’t been discussed enough throughout history; Privilege gives advantages or immunity grants to particular people or groups of people. An article published by Tal Fortgangs titled “Check My Privilege: Character as Basis of Privilege” tackles on the subject matter of checking his own privilege in a strong, blinded, single-sided, opinionated style of writing to express his feelings and family struggles to obtain their privilege and what one and their ancestors have to go through to obtain this Privilege we all desire and want. In this article Fortgang beings by talking about “Checking his Privilege,” which rephrases to explore how you …show more content…
His arguments seem to fall flat because he seems to ignore the fact that even though his grandparents came to America with no money and not knowing the language he did have one characteristic that helped benefit him and prosper in America and that is his skin color. The system of society has Fortgang colorblind because even though his grandfather came from another country his characteristic presented him as a White Male, which is the dominant race in America. Begin seen as the dominant race quickly opens up doors to great opportunities such as receiving citizenship and job opportunities with less/no struggle, compared to someone of color who doesn’t know English. People of color have a much more difficult time trying to gain citizenship or even simply find a job to put food on the table, let alone make enough in order to put their children through college. This is an issue because racial profiling and discrimination exist in America and we don’t like to admit it but we are all color blinded by it. If you are not a white male you are not equal or aren’t given the same opportunities as someone who is of the dominant race. Fortgang said that his grand father had nothing when coming to America but that’s not correct because he already was given certain privileges just based on his skin