Nell Irvin Painter Analysis

My first impression of Nell Irvin Painter was that she was a Man. Her name was not a traditional female name so I automatically assumed that she was a male. Mrs. Irvin Painter had a sense of humor about her that she showed in the beginning which made me think that this wouldn’t be a long fifty minute video. She looked very sleek and clean and have the tone of voice that showed she knew what she was talking about. When I am speaking on a topic and I know all my facts and information I tend to speak with a tone similar to hers. It was good seeing a women be able to write 28 chapters on the history of white people and it became a successful book. With her having some of a white audience I didn’t know how they would respond to some of the things …show more content…
It’s also significant to me that there was an African American women who actually took the time out to find the history behind white privilege and white identity and where they come from. She created the honest truth on the true history of whiteness. I personally enjoyed the video because I learned more about part of my ethnicity that I did not know before. Being mixed with white, black and Native American I’ve never had the chance to know the full background about my ethnicities other than my African American side. So to here Mrs. Painter tell the history behind white people had a huge significance on me. There was a point in the video that I did not agree with is when she said Tiger Woods was ugly for the things he had done and then someone in the background said he’s just like another black man and she just nodded and said yes and smiled. What is it to be like another black male? Which black male President Obama, Samuel L Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Dwayne Wade their all black males so, what is just another black