I believe many have one race that has more privilege than others. White privilege goes beyond everyday injustices, as well, and discusses more systemic issues such as long-term accumulation of wealth, education, and power. For example, a white child born into a wealthy family is likely to be sent to good schools, tutored either by knowledgeable parents or expensive tutors, have an expensive private college at least partially paid for, and then be introduced to a social network of powerful people. An African-American child born in a lower-income area will be sent to failing schools, have parents who do not have the time and/or the resources to help them with their work, and then they will have to find a way to put themselves through school, which at best means community college or city schools, and then graduate into no network. As of today, we are still fighting racism. Some individuals feel like this world shouldn’t be diverse and only contain people they are comfortable with, but sadly it doesn’t work that way. After watching the video, you can clearly see that the people of color have fewer advantages than people who are portrayed as “white”. I believe people of color or colored people will never experience “white privilege”, that is something you are born with but not given too. But it doesn’t always with have a race, but sometimes we have objects that some people don’t. For example, some of us have the opportunity to go to school for free and in other countries, children can’t even receive an education. I would say that’s an extremely gifted privilege to myself.
The term “microaggression” is defined as a statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic minority. For example, Asian Americans being complimented for speaking good English since they are perceived as aliens in their own country who might not know English. when an African American passes by a woman, the woman automatically clutches her purse more tightly, indicating that they are more prone towards committing crimes, etc. All these prejudices, discriminations, and everyday microaggressions, has led to strong stereotypes and negativity in our society of treating everyone unequally. Such negative attitudes have increased racial violence even on social media, wherein people are spreading hate messages about each other creating communal differences, brainwashing, and harming people.
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Hello Megan M. Ramdin, ” I believe people of color or colored people will never experience “white privilege”, that is something you are born with but not given too” that’s my favorite sentence in you discussion. i wrote the same thing in my discussion i don’t have privilege and never will have. the world we are living is so sad and brainwashed i wish everybody can get alone.
Hello Megan M. Ramdin, ” I believe people of color or colored people will never experience “white privilege”, that is something you are born with but not given too” that’s my favorite sentence in you discussion. i wrote the same thing in my discussion i don’t have privilege and never will have. the world we are living is so sad and brainwashed i wish everybody can get alone.