9/23/2021

Gws 100-170W

Professor Waychoff 

                                                      White Privilege

What is white privilege? What is a privilege?

A privilege is when someone has the advantage of doing certain things. In my definition privilege is when someone has a special right that people rarely have. Now white privilege is when white people have more advantages than  African americans. In this case they are privileged because of the color of their skin. An example of this is back in the days when we had segregation. Many caucasians had the privilege to attend beautiful schools, drink at very clean water fountains, and the best restaurants built from the ground up. Meanwhile, African Americans were not given this privilege. They would always have a dirty water fountain, and very small cluttered restaurants etc… Another example of white privilege is when caucasians get treated very well by the police, while blacks get slammed to the ground, shot, tasered, and stomped on. In addition African Americans would spend years in jail while a white person would spend only a couple of years for the same crime. 

Another example of a privilege is light skin privilege. Light Skinned and dark skins have been talked about the most for years now. Like white or caucasian people, light skin women are privileged as well for being a lighter complexion. For instance many light skins receive compliments on their body and their features while dark skin women would be called too dark and too ugly. This is something that African Americans experience too. We were not considered beautiful. Therefore we would never be in magazines. Instead slim caucasian women with a small nose will be called beautiful and often be put on the cover of a magazine. Finally there was a youtube video that was going viral that many youtubers did a couple of months ago. The name of the video is called “ Smash or pass”. It’s where a bunch of males and females line up and they say whether or not they would sleep with them or pass them. In some of these videos most of the men were very disrespectful to the dark skin women. They would even ask them questions like “ why are you so black” which  made the women very uncomfortable. Meanwhile they would barely pass or say anything negative to the light skinned women. 

Jenny Petit-frere

Response to Meiqi chen

I agree with what you said. For a long time women would be like a maid in the house doing everything. While the men would go to work and bring the money home. To bring this further, when we look back women did not have many right at all. For example women were not allowed to work while carrying a baby, Vote, sue for sexual harassment, get fired for being pregnant, and many more.