Ciara Cardona/reading reflection 3

Both of the readings and the video made me understand more about privilege. I am acknowledging more of an individual’s experiences as well as my own. We all feel the need to sympathize with other people’s experiences which in a way is kind of insensitive because not all of us fight the same battles so we could not understand every single struggle. Now, we should not invalidate other experiences or even our own but we should be more aware of the different struggles we go through based on the POC.  I know this topic is a little controversial but a lot of us are in fact POC so we can have this discussion. We do not usually come together unless it’s to talk about white privilege or even how they have made things harder for us. As people of color, we tend to say things like “same” or “I could relate” when we compare racism experiences but in reality a lot of us can not really understand on the same level. Privilege can be earned or unearned such as white privilege by color of their skin. I do not agree with the fact that people are born into wealth without worrying about anything in their whole life but others have to work hard to have food on the table, some water or even shelter. I did however find out that it is also the littlest things considered as privilege such as waking up, having health insurance or even having a family. Privilege affects everyone and we should try and set a change.

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