White privilege

In this memo I explain how privilege can cause large groups of people to receive unfair treatment due to their identity and background. It contains discussion how being part of a more privileged group in society gives me advantages while being part of a minority leaves people with significantly fewer resources. Areas in Which I am Privileged There are several reasons why I am privileged; being white, able-bodied, cisgender, receiving an education, and having a stable income are all examples.…

White supremacy was created based on the belief that white people are more superior people of color and for this reason, the while people believe that they are supposed to be dominate race amongst the other races. Though started a couple of centuries ago, this notion continues to dominate today. Because of white supremacy, the white people are now believed to be better and more powerful than people of color, especially the blacks. However, regardless of the dominance of this concept in different…

They listen so as to better understand what the marginalized groups are going through and, this helps them better support those groups. Allyship also requires one to acknowledge that they have a privilege that a certain marginalized group lacks. When fighting for social change, Ally’s can use their privilege…

DaSilva believes that racism is practiced primarily by the white population and, as instances of overt discrimination become more difficult to find in contemporary America, he contends that racism must be shrouded in something called ‘color-blind racism’ and white privilege. The use of this ideology to justify the persistent inequities present in society relies on the assumption that the dominant culture is somehow working in concert to maintain the status quo of racial superiority. However, it…

educator and antiracist essayist, Tim Wise examines in his book, White Like Me Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, his life story of racism, white privilege and whiteness. Wise uses his life experiences as Southern Jewish man and the fight against the establishment that created white privilege, the imperfections of the invisible “golden ticket” of equality, freedom from prejudices and fairness that is bestowed only upon whites, at birth, while “withheld from people of color” (Wise XI).…

“ideal beauty standard.” Beauty ads are a platform where advertisers attack on women’s “flaws” and bombard them with “cures” to help them become their definition of “beautiful.” For instance, the beauty industry convinces women that they need to look white. Whiteness is considered superior, and…

much dominated by gay white men. The public representatives of the movement were mostly gay white men; most organizations were led by gay white men. And the gay white male leaders had some seriously bad race and gender stuff: treating gay men of color as fetishistic Others, objects of sexual desire rather than members of the community… and treating lesbians as alien Others, inscrutable and trivial. And we’re paying for it today. Relations between lesbians and gay men, between white queers and…

Movement” (Niagara) by W.E.B. DuBois have the overall theme of equality throughout their speeches. The two speeches discuss voting and educational rights of African Americans compared to that of white Americans. DuBois and Washington both agree that voting rights for African Americans would give them equality with white Americans, but the two speakers believe in taking different pathways to get rights. However, only DuBois believes that education is also another important right to be given to…

and exotic, something that only people of color possess. However, whiteness is just as much of a race as any other, yet we continue to ignore the fact that being white is conceptually the same as being black, Hispanic, Muslim, or what have you. This idea is called white privilege and it is based on the social construct that gives white people an advantage, socially, over all other races. Whiteness is constructed in such a way that it is often seen as a default and the norm and is subsequently,…

“Whites have not had to build tolerance for racial discomfort, and thus when racial discomfort arises, whites typically respond as if something is ‘wrong,’ and blame the person or event that triggered the discomfort (usually a person of color).” (DiAnglo, 2012) From this week’s reading, I found the quote above very interesting. This quote reminds me of the recent news about Trump administration preparing to challenge admission policies which prefer minorities over white students in US higher…