This week’s reading, like always, was a very interesting and knowledge filled reading. I was able to learn more about privileges white people get to experience and obtain a bigger picture behind white privilege. White Privilege is just like many other common terms, like cultural appropriation and “Black Lives Matter,” that have been thrown around the past few years. Many times, these terms are overused and misunderstood, therefore causing misunderstandings and the message losing its value and effectiveness over time. For example, when it comes to white privilege, many would think that it means white people being smart and rich partying on a yacht. They would relate the term to a racial group’s wealth. This is, in fact, a wrong definition for whites privilege. So one may ask, what is white privilege? White privilege, or, to be more exact, white skinned privilege, is privileges in society that are exclusively given to white people by certain societies. These societal privileges leaves behind non-white people and benefit white people that are under the same political, economical, and social classes. White privilege does not mean white people don’t struggle in life, but it means they will not have to struggle in life because of skin color. 

Today white people don’t realize that’s the sad part. In our society, when you’re black, Latino, or Asian-American, in many ways, you still have to protect yourself and other people of your group, by yourself. White people are never seen as an asset or a disgrace to their race because their actions are considered their own. No one else’s actions reflect negatively or positively on them. While some white people take every discussion of racism personally and end up standing up for the indisputable, when non-whites talk about racism, they are usually talking about the system and specific individuals, not about white people in general. This kind of pervasive racism is a specialty favored by white people. If white men commit 20 murders in a day, it doesn’t affect how people view white men in general. If a murder is committed by Black, each Black becomes a suspect and target. We’ve seen it happen over and over again over the years. I’m not advocating any crime here, that’s just an example. 

White privilege means not having to fear the police. For example, when a white person sees the flashing lights of a police car behind them, they may worry about being fined and know how to get out of it. They probably didn’t think about losing their lives. That’s the first thing that many black people in the same situation think of. If they panic and act irrationally, it’s because they’re scared for their lives and tired of constantly feeling this way. Whenever another unarmed black person was shot by the police, someone, usually white, would ask why they disobeyed the order of the police and agreed to be humiliated and dehumanized. . Their failure to receive it is a prime example of white privilege. If you don’t have to live your life feeling like a target because of the color of your skin, you probably can’t really understand why black people react the way they do when they stare at the barrel. pistol from the police.