When you read Unit 1, you are introduced to many terms and concepts you may or may not already be familiar with regarding people, their community, family, etc. These terms defined throughout help us to better understand the world around us and to better describe that world. People are complex beings on their own, with gender, identity, sexuality and once you add in laws, social institutions, etc. and it becomes all the more complicated. What a person may or may not have access to changes. Their social status might change. Maybe the jobs they have access to now changes. Intersectionality helps us better understand that. Shows us that there are layers to each person which can include but is not limited to their race, sex, gender, age, etc. When I got to the section on Racism I couldn’t help but to think of what is going on in the world presently. Why someone’s race is still a deciding factor never made sense to me. “…founding of the United States…were built to benefit wealthy, white men since at the time these were, by law, the only real “citizens” of the country.” it has been a long time since the “founding of the United States” you would think all these many years later and that wouldn’t matter any more. Yet it does. People in positions of power who cannot see a person for who they are, a person whether or not they are rich or poor, disabled, homosexual–they shouldn’t be in a position of power. It only negates any progress we have made and sets us back when we should be moving forward. eventually in the future this wouldn’t matter anymore and people will be focused on the more important aspects of a person-such as their credentials, experience, expertise.
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