Mcintosh's Article: White Privilege Unpacking The Invisible Kapsack

White Privilege is an underlying “right” or “immunity granted” given to white people instead of color people. In the article “White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy Mcintosh, her definition of white privilege is an invisible package of unearned assets (Mcintosh:49). Mcintosh explains how white people are carefully taught to not recognize white privilege (Mcintosh: 49). A good example of this is not being discriminated by the color of your skin, by your name, religion, and so on. White privilege is everywhere, from governmental positions to television to corporations, to wealth, class, just to name a few. A quote from the article “Explaining White privilege to a Broke White Person” by Gina Crosley-Corcoran gives a perfect …show more content…
In 1930 Briggs racial population was 99% whites. In 1990, blacks made up to 56% of the population (Hartigan 199:15). Briggs community is of poor socioeconomic status. In Briggs, whites from Southern who migrated to Detroit in the 1940s and 1960s and failed to assimilate into new norm of Detroit were called “hillbilly.” (Hartigan 199:28). Olde Briggs residents put down hillbillies because they believe they are savages uneducated people. Three main event that happened in Detroit that Hartigan uses to explain what happened to their Briggs neighborhood was when the hillbillies arrived to the community: a riot in 1943 and 1967 broke out: Lastly, in 1978 Franklin Elementary school close down. This events were marked as the shifting racial order in Detroit (Hartigan 199:24). Hartigan explains how he expected that whites would express concern of racial explanation of the events that their neighborhood 's was declining because of black; yet they blame hillbillies indest of the shift in class “character” (Hartigan 199:27). Not being able to belong or and assimilate bring up class distinctions. (Hartigan 199:31). Also Hartigan explains how the word “nigger” is not only use to describe black people. Yet hillbillies use the word “nigger” to describe each others, whites and blacks (Hartigan …show more content…
After the postwar this city boom, bringing in whites. The socioeconomic status of Warrendale starting as working class moving to middle class. Yet the eco mock character of Warrendale has being changing and home ownership has been dropping (Hartigan 199:12). Poverty rate double and triple in others. Warrendale was comprise 80% white. Warrendale also deal with the issue of white racialness. in Warrendale the impactable term is “racist” (Hartigan 199:18). In 1992, Detroit Board of Education unexpectedly reopen its doors with a new name “Malcolm X Academy” with a consecration on Afrocentric curriculum. Whites were not happy about the opening of the school that they accused the school board of attempting to desegregate black children. Media was like a little the kid at a candy store with this event. Media make this news seem as whites were terrified of blacks (Hartigan 199:13). In media, white residents of Warrendale that protested against the school board’s decision of opening the Malcolm X Academy, they were painted as “racists” opposing a “black school”. White residents of Warrendale deny those remarks and changed the depiction to who are the “real racists”. Those that were against the Malcolm X Academy and that were call racist are the white upper middle class. White residents accused the school board of attempting to “resegregate” black children to eventually separatis blacks nationalist ideology (Hartigan