White people

Have you ever seeing people vandalizing on a public transportation, and you were just sitting there doing nothing about it? I have and I regret my decision of silence. In the City of San Francisco, vandalism is a form of urban art, but according to SF Public Work, it cost around 20 million annually to recover the damage from vandalism. As a rider of the public transportation, our bus fee was raised several times because of vandalism. Why did I stay silence on the bus? I could have stopped the…

Imagine a place where children, white or black, don’t have to be taught since birth that there is a difference between people with different skin colors. Imagine your kid getting up to go to school, not even knowing or caring about racism. Also imagine your kids not having to hate black or white children just because they are the opposite skin color. Some kids grow up thinking, because they are not the same skin color they are less important than him or her. (McWhorter 38) Presidents Nixon and…

and white have tripled. White people get more privileges than black in most of the field like jobs, salary etc. Until and unless the disparity like these exists, we will still be facing racism as one of the main problems. 50% people believe that we live in the post racism era, but then there as more than 50% white living in the states. White people don’t know the privilege they are getting for just being white, so they don’t realize the racial discrimination going on. This doesn’t mean people…

exclusionary law that put restrictions on immigrants did not actually restrict to movement of people but established who could become American citizens. It restricted citizenship…

dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.” (T.H. White, The Once and Future King) Since presidential election in America had dramatically ended, its political division influenced people around the world as much as Americans. After 2016 presidential election, I can sense a strong feeling of national tension between Trump voters, which are mainly white Americans, and immigrants. Most of my roommates and classmates are immigrants or…

Curtain The poem “The White Man’s Burden” can mean an array of things. From one side, “The White Man’s Burden” was a warning to those who sought the power of the world by controlling land and the people who live there. It also served as encouragement for white men to further imperialism. This can be seen in the line “cold, edged with dear- brought wisdom.” He is providing the knowledge that a white man needs to be successful. Kipling is clearly laying out the harsh realities to white men whose…

progress has been made. Racial inequality is something America is still struggling with, and has been since its birth. Racism should have been eradicated after the civil war, unfortunately it hasn’t, instead it has evolved. In this essay I look at white privilege, a hidden form on racism. I will look at what it is, who benefits from it and how. If it’s really a privilege and how it effect both sides. I will look at how it works and what can be done to correct it. While fighting and learning for…

Unfortunately, freedom in this country does not necessarily mean free. Unequal and treated unfairly, people of color live throughout society. Sure, they have the same rights as white people, but racism still exists, more specifically in the workplace and education. Systemic Racism, (aka racism in the workplace, education, and criminal justice system) is a deeply affecting topic that not many people know about. There needs to be more awareness on Systemic Racism amongst the educations system,…

Through the evaluation of many essays talking about whiteness and the power of privilege, I was able to identify and defined the word privilege and the invisibility veil covering my eyes as a white man. My own early experiences have shaped me to understand that the color of my skin would make me normal in a sense that I don’t belong to a minority group; thus, I will never be experiencing discrimination in this country. Analyzing these materials and author’s perspectives, I came to the conclusion…

the 1927 lynching and white race riot against the Black community of Rosewood, Florida that reveals how the local sheriff and city government officials participated in the lynchings, terror, murders, and racial and ethnic cleansing against African Americans and their property. This film confirms the first issue as true. Related to this, the excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folks (1903), described how, during the Era of Jim Crow or Racial Segregation, whites people in and out of…