The readings “White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible Knapsack” and Marilyn Frye “Oppression” opens up with examples and how to define being privileged and the effects one can get by oppression. The reading “White Privileged: unpacking the invisible Knapsack” talks about different ways someone can be privileged, for instance, white privileged or men privilege. In the reading, it states My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, or as a participant in a damaged culture. I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will. She, as a white woman is showing us that oppressor, is optional and only because you have advantages as she did, it doesn’t change the fact that you don’t have to treat others differently because of race color, or status. She also states “I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.“I disagree with her on this one because even if you are white or any color race placed in a position where you have it better than others you can see that you are privileged let alone if you’re white privileged you can see that you have way more advantages then people of color or status. To exemplify as a Hispanic woman in The Bronx I still have privileges no matter if I live in an area where there are a lot of incidents or crime rates I am still privileged because back in my country they don’t have the benefits or opportunities or privileges I do. So I believe you can carefully not be taught that but it’s always there no matter how you look at it same goes with male privilege. When I hear the word oppressed I think about injustice and unfairness. The reading by Marilyn Frye talks about Oppression as a female. We get to read about how women get oppressed very differently from men and how we can’t really do much about it since its always going to be like that unless we say something about what really is going on in our lives and putting a stop to what’s bothering us because in this society it can be treated very differently. Oppressions like the reading says are hard to recognize when one is really doing it but I feel like you can if you put your mind into others’ perspectives and how you treat them can affect a lot. All in all, this is what I’ve learned from these two articles about the concepts of Oppression and Privilege.