White Privilege By Tim Wise Summary

A. In this Tim Wise discusses how the so called white privilege came about in the United States and how it was a big joke. He talks about how especially back during the Civil War that the world was off balance. White people were clearly more privileged and they may not have realized it until slavery came about. He mentions that the middle class people were fooled by those of the Elite class. The Elite class made them feel as though they were more important than there servants, which were normally African Americans, even though, the Elite did not care what everyone thought, they just wanted to stay on top. They felt that to stay on top they must create a class system. Elite was better than the Middle and Lower class, the Middle class was better than the Lower class, and if you were in the lower class you were nothing. Whites tended to be in both the Elite class and the Middle class while the African Americans fell in the Lower class, thus creating privilege.
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• Shock
• Disbelief
• Frustrated
C. During this video, I became more and more frustrated. I have briefly understood what white privilege was growing up, but I had never heard it in this detail before. I could not believe that this was how this came about. I was shocked to find out that it started only briefly slavery came about. I thought that once the African Americans came here to the …show more content…
I do not think that I am one to be bias or racist in any way. However, I do think that in the society we live in today, growing up, you know who stands out in your community. I grew up in a white community. There is very little diversity where I come from. Once I got to Jr. High though, there was one student out of the whole class that was of a different color. I do not know what it was life for her growing up where she did, but when she was little I cannot imagine that it was easy. I would not say out loud that I had more privilege than another person, but when I was younger, I feel like I may have thought that I