The Pathology Of White Privilege By Tim Wise

In the “The Pathology of White Privilege” by Tim Wise talks about how white privilege has affected the United States. He brings up that “White Privilege” is not seen by Whites that it 's as if Whites are blind to the issue. That America is blind to racism, blind to problems that only affects minorities. We choose to ignore things when it 's not directly affecting us, but how are we as a nation ignoring issues that are happening here in our nation? We choose to incarcerate minorities, deny service, deny government services, and we suppress minorities. This is all done to maintain the White man in power. Americans are in “White Denial” that Whites admit that it has been a problem in the past about racism against minorities. We are constantly …show more content…
With technology rising it 's been easier to capture these police brutality, to see discrimination, to see how white privilege is real and not a myth. If you wanted to get a loan like Wise said, what are the actual chances you would have against a white overprivileged? If you wanted a job and you are a minority running against a white person and they get the job when you a minority have as or more qualifications than the other person. Wize brings out various legitimate arguments that have been happening for as long as the United States of America was founded. It 's everywhere! There is no denying it that it does not exist in the USA because we do it as well without knowing. You could say to yourself that you don 't favor black or white yet you are likely to favor one over the other without being conscious of it. We have been brainwashed so badly by the media that we are likely to favor one over the other, to see groups of races as a common …show more content…
My parents are Mexican immigrants and I see how they are treated and how they treat me. I have gone to Mi Pueblo, my mother went and I were buying groceries. As my mother got attended she got spoke to in spanish and was friendly. When I got to the register I spoke to her in spanish, yet she choose to speak english as if I was unable to speak spanish. I kept going in spanish, yet she did not budge to speak to me in spanish even though my first language is spanish. I told my mother about this she told me “It 's because you look white! The way you dress also makes you look white”. I felt offended regardless of how I look, it was an experience that I have not forgotten since every time I get I choose to speak my native