Path of privilege
White Privilege, Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality
In this spellbinding lecture, the author of the bestselling White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a powerful inside out look at race and racism in America, surveying the damage white privilege has done not only to people of color, but to white people themselves. Tim Wise starts off this incredibly knowledgeable lecture about white privilege with a statement: “In this culture we are lead to believe that if someone stands before your or proclaimed expert that it must be because they are indeed the brightest blub in the box that they know something that the other people don’t know.” What he means by this statement is that society judge’s people and they want people to believe what they say and society usually does believe because we are clueless. Three minuets into the lecture Tim then transitions into the erasure of race in politics and culture. He speaks briefly on the issues of what politics have to say and not say about the issues that are important to them. Issues as in racism. 2006 had witnessed the highest number of race-based on housing discrimination complaints in the recorded of history. In 1968 to follow up on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Fair Housing Act was passed. Tim gets more into detail and talks about the research that was published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2004 and talks about how this research received little to “no media attention” besides to Doctors and health people. This research showed that there were almost one million black people in this country who died. With the right concern of people the number of deaths in the black community would of never of been so high. Then Tim gets into black and Latino males that are three times more likely then white males to have their vehicle stopped and searched for drugs, whereas the white males actually have drugs but do not get searched. He then talks about how he asked a law
In this spellbinding lecture, the author of the bestselling White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a powerful inside out look at race and racism in America, surveying the damage white privilege has done not only to people of color, but to white people themselves. Tim Wise starts off this incredibly knowledgeable lecture about white privilege with a statement: “In this culture we are lead to believe that if someone stands before your or proclaimed expert that it must be because they are indeed the brightest blub in the box that they know something that the other people don’t know.” What he means by this statement is that society judge’s people and they want people to believe what they say and society usually does believe because we are clueless. Three minuets into the lecture Tim then transitions into the erasure of race in politics and culture. He speaks briefly on the issues of what politics have to say and not say about the issues that are important to them. Issues as in racism. 2006 had witnessed the highest number of race-based on housing discrimination complaints in the recorded of history. In 1968 to follow up on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Fair Housing Act was passed. Tim gets more into detail and talks about the research that was published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2004 and talks about how this research received little to “no media attention” besides to Doctors and health people. This research showed that there were almost one million black people in this country who died. With the right concern of people the number of deaths in the black community would of never of been so high. Then Tim gets into black and Latino males that are three times more likely then white males to have their vehicle stopped and searched for drugs, whereas the white males actually have drugs but do not get searched. He then talks about how he asked a law