Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Learning about white privelage

I feel that learning about this will be very difficult for the whole class becuase we must recognize that there are injustices in society and that all white people benifit from them. I myself benifit from white privelage. The way that i dress and express myself was never questioned until some of my friends and coaches found out that my father was what they thought was black. My teamates on the swim team then refernced me as the black kid on the team when before i was just Justin. There are many other examples that are hard to explain but overall i think that it is difficult to see the ways that i myself have benifitted and other ways when i was denied white privelage.

1 comment:

  1. Your comments here relate directly to what Allan H. Johnson discusses in his essay--how individuals benefit from privilege, yet privilege is granted (or denied) on the basis of an individual being identified within a larger social category.

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