Are the choices of minorities dependent upon their race? Following the reading of a journal excerpt was written by Peggy Mcintosh (1998), White Privilege unpacking the invisible knapsack, I was able to examine the privilege of choice as determined by law. The law assumes free-will recognizing one's ability to rationalize the cost and benefit of particular behavior prior to committing an act. The law applying to all of its citizens is assumed equally enforced; that the privilege of choice is an entitlement. Although, the law is applied as it stands according to those who have the authority to implement it as they interpret it. The regulation of one's actions characterizes choice as a privilege rather than a right. The authoritative group implicitly
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That implies that racism can be expressed, as a choice to act mean', towards a person of the same race. Privilege then becomes a social phenomenon, not dependent upon one's physiology though still disadvantaging an individual. Rather, racism is not simply an attitude. It is an act of choice to oppress an out-group from the dominant race institutionally. By nature, we tend to acknowledge only positive aspects of our behavior that induces a sense of satisfaction and elude the negative aspects to avoid confrontation of an issue. When regarding academics, if a minority student is exceeding in class, the teacher may unintentionally limit their experience by associating their individual level of achievement with the significant disadvantage of their race. For instance, the teacher may modify the minority students desirable goals by expressing the choices they believe to be most appropriate for their future based on race. It is certainly not an act of meanness, more of survival mechanism when faced with a threat. If one were to take responsibility for the subtle negative messages and deliberate institutional deprivation of equally earned privileges, then that would be threatening to the unearned privilege being …show more content…
The #6 white privilege on Mcintosh list states “When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.” It must be gratifying to have knowledge of one’s heritage. To be individually honored for ancestry achievement is a privilege and it should be, however, with respect to other contributors that made such an achievement possible. Mcintosh mentions that the many contributors to what we refer to as a “civilization “ are not accounted for, as if others outside of the in-group are inconveniently placed as a burden. Depicting images of a dominant group member or a white person is to impose indirectly an idealistic perspective on the viewers that is impossible to attain. If exposed to the positive actions of another and explicitly exposed to negative actions by one who is of the same kind, the desire to be accepted is thought to be achieved through assimilation. Though there after assimilation is no drastic effect except a loss of identity to sustain the identity of those who are privileged. Descriptions of others unlike oneself leaves a clueless future and a lingering thought of what one could be if they had just fit the description. Minimizing the effect of assimilation, one may recognize it as the only existing
That implies that racism can be expressed, as a choice to act mean', towards a person of the same race. Privilege then becomes a social phenomenon, not dependent upon one's physiology though still disadvantaging an individual. Rather, racism is not simply an attitude. It is an act of choice to oppress an out-group from the dominant race institutionally. By nature, we tend to acknowledge only positive aspects of our behavior that induces a sense of satisfaction and elude the negative aspects to avoid confrontation of an issue. When regarding academics, if a minority student is exceeding in class, the teacher may unintentionally limit their experience by associating their individual level of achievement with the significant disadvantage of their race. For instance, the teacher may modify the minority students desirable goals by expressing the choices they believe to be most appropriate for their future based on race. It is certainly not an act of meanness, more of survival mechanism when faced with a threat. If one were to take responsibility for the subtle negative messages and deliberate institutional deprivation of equally earned privileges, then that would be threatening to the unearned privilege being …show more content…
The #6 white privilege on Mcintosh list states “When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.” It must be gratifying to have knowledge of one’s heritage. To be individually honored for ancestry achievement is a privilege and it should be, however, with respect to other contributors that made such an achievement possible. Mcintosh mentions that the many contributors to what we refer to as a “civilization “ are not accounted for, as if others outside of the in-group are inconveniently placed as a burden. Depicting images of a dominant group member or a white person is to impose indirectly an idealistic perspective on the viewers that is impossible to attain. If exposed to the positive actions of another and explicitly exposed to negative actions by one who is of the same kind, the desire to be accepted is thought to be achieved through assimilation. Though there after assimilation is no drastic effect except a loss of identity to sustain the identity of those who are privileged. Descriptions of others unlike oneself leaves a clueless future and a lingering thought of what one could be if they had just fit the description. Minimizing the effect of assimilation, one may recognize it as the only existing