Tim Wise White Privilege Analysis

In Tim Wise’s video, The Pathology of White Privilege, Tim Wise elaborates on several race-related issues and discusses the affects of white privilege as we see in our daily lives. From the beginning, Wise states, “This study found that between 1991 and 2000, there was almost one million African Americans in the United States who died, who would not have died if they merely been white and had the average health care quality and access of the typical white man in this country” (Wise, 2008, 6:29-6:43). Wise proposes that such information is not shared nor discusses within society as it is described to be ‘institutionalized injustice’ and because it is systemic - Wise suggests that our system is flawed and the United States’ law enforcement …show more content…
In suggesting the average white-American does not bear the burden of representing their group well, evidently due to white privilege, Wise describes this as ‘over-privilege,’ meaning acquiring ‘too many’ advantages or opportunities compared to others; African Americans, Latinos, and other minority groups. However, our society does not refer to the white-American population as ‘over-privileged’ as society often uses the term ‘underprivileged’ in referring to those of color. In using the term ‘over-privileged’ to describe those of the Caucasian race would then require those to acknowledge the unearned advantages white-Americans attain. In Peggy McIntosh’s article White Privilege and Male Privilege : A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies (1988), McIntosh describes her personal observations and daily experiences concerning the various forms and aspects of ‘women privilege’ and ‘male privilege.’ McIntosh accounts for multiple ways of which she personally encounters and experiences white privilege, even the circumstances of which McIntosh benefited from this …show more content…
In Tim Wise’s video, The Pathology of White Privilege, Wise mentions how a majority of the white-American population believe the United States, as a whole, has gradually gravitated toward a post-racist society; ignoring the oppression of which African Americans, Latinos, and other racial-minorities face everyday. Through this, Wise suggests the white-American population to be in denial of the privileges of which they are rewarded compared to those of an minority; similarly relating to the denial of which McIntosh discusses in her article White Privilege and Male Privilege : A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies (1988), by which a male’s unconscious privilege does not recognize or acknowledge its oppressiveness toward women. White-Americans toward those of color, as those of the male population toward the women population, are “justly seen as oppressive,” even when we do not envision ourselves in this light, as McIntosh describes in her assertion (McIntosh, 1988.) Skin privilege and gender privilege has conditioned its way into existence, by which fogging the perception