The Importance Of Being A Person Of Color Myself

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Being a person of color myself, I found the articles we had to read very interesting. I had honestly never thought of being a white person as something as being over privileged as one of the article mentions. T was very refreshing to see so many different perspectives on racism. I especially likes the number of points McIntosh brought up had never even occurred to me. Especially the point where she brought up that she would never have to speak for all people in her racial group (McIntosh). She brought up some really good points that I had not thought of before. I also liked how Tatum pointed out that a lot of people today feel like racism does not exist anymore (Tatum). Although I feel like it has reduced drastically over the past few years,

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