White Privelage: Attack on White People

Today in class as well in many times this semester people have mentioned that the book/books have been discriminatory or attacking towards white people. Many have said that it paints white people as bad and all racist or that it generalizes too much. My response to these views are that we need to get over it. If you look throughout history white people have done many great things, created great nations and laws, created great technology and many many more things that we constantly recognize in history. Along with these thngs white people have been the most racist and dominating people as well. If we are so ready to accept the good we most also accept the bad. Are class is about ethnicity and race and we talk a great deal about racism. In talking about this there needs to be an understanding that the book will expose the racist ways of the white majority throughout history and many times the advantages that whites now have. If we cant recognize these things then we havent gained anything from this class. Today we talked about affirmitive action and many people said that it was reverse discrimination and that everyone should be on a level playing field. Yes everyone should be on a level playing field, and minorities are not. I am a firm believer that in America and most of the world white people have more oppurtunity to be succesful. This is engrained in our everyday reality. So i accept the reverse discrimination that affirmitave action puts into place. I think it does a ton more good than it does bad. I also dont think that most white people are denied jobs or college scholarships or anything, those cases are few and far between. I could go on for days but i just think that people need to stop worrying about if the book is racist against white people and actually see what it is saying= that white people benifit from white privelage. THIS IS FACT, i know cuz i have no doubt benifitted from it and im biracial! -end of long rant-