Private Privilege In America
What is privilege? This seems to be the topic of discussion in America since forever; but it is now being questioned more now centuries later and its plastering a smear on America, additional to the election of 2016. Trump and people like Trump who has great wealth and power, has and keep us assured that even in the new millennium we are making almost little to no progress of change and appreciations when it comes to the play of feelings of the oppressed. As a black man I do not feel those in power are for people like me, or for anyone that do not look like them. All they have done is let it be known that racism, genocide and white privilege will never die down. Now a days, it seems that the people of power are still accepting of the crooked
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Being white to me means that you automatically are distinguished as “normal” because white people tend to get the higher paying jobs simply because they are the people who dominate this world with power. Because of my ethnic identification I am seen as “non-white” and labeled as “black”, while others ethnics are labeled “others”. This tends to make the “others” feel oppressed. The privilege that is given to the white dominant group is not the same privilege given to people of color. When will our society accept that being different can be also be considered “normal?” This is privilege itself, socially constructed ideas that only exists when the members of the society believe it and enforce it. When society recognizes the idea of privilege, the ones accepting the privilege only have that opportunity to do so because of a physical characteristic that is out of their control. A lot of innocent children for the next generations growing up should be made aware of these issues, as I was not always made aware but I knew from common sense things weren’t equally the same, my history books had people like me always fighting and struggling and growing up against the other race we are still fighting and struggling for equality, and this has been forever. But I will say from everything we have been reading and learning, and what I know from personal experiences, if you are one that is born into the so called dominant group you will never know, or ever have to know what it is like to not be there. However, it matters more what one does with the privilege after receiving it. Privilege in our society can also be used as a powerful instrument into the helping of those that are being
Being white to me means that you automatically are distinguished as “normal” because white people tend to get the higher paying jobs simply because they are the people who dominate this world with power. Because of my ethnic identification I am seen as “non-white” and labeled as “black”, while others ethnics are labeled “others”. This tends to make the “others” feel oppressed. The privilege that is given to the white dominant group is not the same privilege given to people of color. When will our society accept that being different can be also be considered “normal?” This is privilege itself, socially constructed ideas that only exists when the members of the society believe it and enforce it. When society recognizes the idea of privilege, the ones accepting the privilege only have that opportunity to do so because of a physical characteristic that is out of their control. A lot of innocent children for the next generations growing up should be made aware of these issues, as I was not always made aware but I knew from common sense things weren’t equally the same, my history books had people like me always fighting and struggling and growing up against the other race we are still fighting and struggling for equality, and this has been forever. But I will say from everything we have been reading and learning, and what I know from personal experiences, if you are one that is born into the so called dominant group you will never know, or ever have to know what it is like to not be there. However, it matters more what one does with the privilege after receiving it. Privilege in our society can also be used as a powerful instrument into the helping of those that are being