Jack Rezuto Interview Research

I decided to interview my friend Jack Rezuto. He is your average five foot eight inch Italian American white guy. Jack is eighteen years old and participates in very average teenage activities. For an example he enjoys lying in bed all day and playing video games. He also enjoys eating very large amount of junk food. As you can see Jack is a perfect candidate for this interview because, he is your average white teenager. My main question for Jack is “what does it mean to be white?” At first he gave me a puzzled look but then he began to give me his thoughts on the question. The first word to come out of his mouth was “privileged” This word is the same thought that comes to many peoples mind when they think of white people. It is one of their …show more content…
It is not like I’m rich or something.” He even said “it’s not like I get free food for being white.” I totally understand what he means by that. He is a middle class citizen so he does really average things like everyone else. He does not have the advantages of doing things out of the ordinary every day. Jack feels like the color of his skin does not makes his life better, it is just his skin tone nothing more. During this time in his life he does not feel like his white privileges have kicked in yet and he is just a normal kid like everyone else. So he does not feel like there anything really great about being white. I feel differently otherwise I think Jack being white will be very beneficial too him as long as he continues to be a hard work. He knows that his skin tone and his hard working attributes can one day get him the job of dreams. His boss could be racially profiling minorities and Jack get job because the color of his skin. In a research done by Marianne Bertrand she revealed that “more than 50% of applicants with a white sounding name was more likely to get a call for an interview than applicants with an African American sounding name.”(Bertrand, Page