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White Privilege And Implicit Racism
White Privilege and Implicit Racism

Racism doesn’t exist anymore right? The KKK isn’t roaming the streets lynching here and there. People aren’t glaring at black people as they walk past innocently. Bathrooms and water fountains are no longer segregated. It’s true that explicit racism no longer exists (in most parts of the world) but a topic many people avoid is white privilege. How a child’s life can be altered from the day they are born based on the colour of their skin. I believe that this issue can be solved with not only the recognition of white privilege, through white people but also the fact that they are the ones who can make a change.

Many statistics support evidence of the existence of white privilege, for those who deny it. Well …show more content…
A certain article (http://www.teenvogue.com/story/naomi-campbell-black-models-discrimination) I read online (posted March 2016) was black supermodel Naomi Campbell discussing the discrimination in the fashion industry. “At the beginning of Naomi Campbell's career, the iconic supermodel recalls dealing with stylists who were unprepared to work with black models.” This shows how unbalanced the industry is, race wise. Stylists had never worked with black models before and did not know how to. “She noted that models of colour today are still "going up against a system" and thus have to "be smarter and compete harder" than their peers.” I can relate to this and believe this situation is all around us. Coming from Thailand, where the ideal is white and slim I have been faced with family calling me chubby and brown (which is a negative comment in their eyes). I have encountered modelling agencies telling me to lose weight and comments implying that I need to “take advantage” of my English white side. I believe that in industries like this, white privilege is very present and …show more content…
Understanding and acting out to help others. For example, in an episode of “Cracking the Codes” Joy Degruy, a black woman, tells the story of how her sister in law, who’s mixed black and white, looks white and is seen as white used her white privilege to help her in a racist situation. As Joy was being treated badly because of her race, her sister in law jumped in and helped. If Joy were to stand up for herself she would be seen as “the angry black woman” but when a white privileged person stood up for her the racist person was able to realize what they were doing wrong and
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