Roxane Gay, Peculiar Benefits, By Eric Gardner And Michael Brown

The talk about Race, segregation, and the importance of equality is far from over here in the United States. It shouldn’t be something taken lightly; something that for the most part only makes the six o’clock news when young African American males such as Eric Gardner and Michael Brown, are left to die on a city street product of being hit by an official bullet or an official “take-down technique”. In my previous provocation, I deliberated in context about sociological “privilege”, specifically how during the chaotic and turbulent 1950s and 60s, a white student was awarded an opportunity towards success, while the African American student became the forgotten character of the entire story. Perhaps the troublesome and hostile events of the 1950s and 60s are long gone; but have you ever wonder if the new version of that particular chronicle is being written, lived, and narrated by many in our 2015 far from perfect society? I think this is the case, I think that the hundreds of minorities who are currently residing in the United States; people who at first hand experienced and still continue to experience segregation, are writing the …show more content…
In her article “Peculiar Benefits”, she goes on to state that we all have some sort of privilege, and that those, we need to learn to be grateful for and realize we have them. Perhaps it can be argued that we all have some sort of privilege, but for many immigrants, especially those who come to the United States and are practically enslaved to low paying jobs and horrific working conditions, finding a privilege they posses can at times be hard. Freedom is that which surround some of the biggest values our nation and this can perhaps be seen as a privilege, but is it really a one? Is it a privilege to be enslaved to a particular job or be dependent on people with your same similarities because of where you fall in a