While starting to read the materials for the course the very first sentences grabbed my attention. “The United States is a nation where people are supposed to be able to rise above their origins. Those who want to succeed, it is believed, can do so through hard work and solid effort.” (Collins, Anderson. 2015) This was actually disturbing for me to read because it so far from the truth. We live in a society that has chosen to not change their views and ways of thinking about race. This system has been set up in a way that in most cases your assumed race will determine how you move forward in life. Yes in some cases some may overcome adversity but they have to work twice as hard to accomplish their goals. Now don’t get me wrong I don’t believe
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White people have an unlimited amount of resources that are offered to them simply because they have white skin. It is the right to drive all times of the day without being stopped by the police, it is entering a business and not being followed around, it’s entering a place to look for employment without someone looking at like you committed a crime, and it’s being offered better educational opportunities because of what you look like. In watching the Me, My, Race and I slides we get an even closer look at the racism that affects this world we live in. It is the sad reality that minorities have to live with day in and day out. In one of the slides something that stuck out to be was that white people are simply people while all other minorities have a label. We also hear about the black man at work riding an elevator while wearing his employment id only to have a woman clutch her bag. We also hear about everyone assuming Asian are extremely smart in math and science. There is an endless list of white privileges. As I was reading a list of some of the privileges Peggy McIntosh has wrote about in The Invisible Knapsack. I feel that for the most part she is correct, except for a few of them which I believe speak more to her status as a middle class member of society than her status as a white
White people have an unlimited amount of resources that are offered to them simply because they have white skin. It is the right to drive all times of the day without being stopped by the police, it is entering a business and not being followed around, it’s entering a place to look for employment without someone looking at like you committed a crime, and it’s being offered better educational opportunities because of what you look like. In watching the Me, My, Race and I slides we get an even closer look at the racism that affects this world we live in. It is the sad reality that minorities have to live with day in and day out. In one of the slides something that stuck out to be was that white people are simply people while all other minorities have a label. We also hear about the black man at work riding an elevator while wearing his employment id only to have a woman clutch her bag. We also hear about everyone assuming Asian are extremely smart in math and science. There is an endless list of white privileges. As I was reading a list of some of the privileges Peggy McIntosh has wrote about in The Invisible Knapsack. I feel that for the most part she is correct, except for a few of them which I believe speak more to her status as a middle class member of society than her status as a white