I experience privilege in many ways. In ways that I sit back and think why are we this privileged? For example, how the woman said in the video, we can open the faucet and get water while there’s others that have to walk miles for it. We have a bed to sleep and some don’t. We have shoes/sneakers to put on to go outside and some go out barefoot because they don’t have anything to put on. I don’t think it’s fair and I always think about things I can do to help those in need. I also feel like we are privileged to open our eyes everyday, some call it blessed but it’s the truth. Growing up my parents worked night and day to keep the lights on, keep our home a home, keep food in the fridge, have clothes on our back. They gave my siblings and I a life they weren’t as privileged to have. I was the only one from my siblings to be born in New York. I had to see them struggle to turn into citizens. Now that I am older, working and going to school. I am trying to support my son and my mom at the same time. I see how much she used to struggled and I want to take care of her now. My sisters also depend on me sometimes. Its hard but at the end of the day I don’t want them to struggle either. I’ve had the privilege to work on Wall Street, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange and during lunch or even on my way to work, in the train, I would get looked at weird when coming out on Wall Street. People giving me looks pretty much saying how is she here? How can she afford what she has on? During lunch I will go downstairs and walk and it will be the same thing. I never fully understood the word oppression. I’m still misty about it but something that I can compare to is sexual oppression. “If one dresses one way, one is subject to the assumption that one is advertising one’s sexual availability” and I didn’t think about it as deep as this before. At the age of 11, my body was fully formed, my boobs were really big, I always looked older than I was. I would walk down the street and all the drug dealers will try to talk to me, always looking at my boobs or butt, and my lips because they are big. It always made me feel so uncomfortable. But than growing up at the age of maybe 18-23 I used to dress up to go out to the club with tight clothes but it was for me, NO ONE ELSE because I look good and guys will definitely confuse it with I want to sleep with them. Point is that now that I’m older, I realized that outside of work because I do work nightlife, I don’t dress like that but its because I don’t want the attention. These readings and video definitely helped me open my eyes on what privileged and oppression mean. I understand a lot more now.