Having a home, water, and perhaps electricity is a fundamental human right, and you die without it or live an impossible life. Yet, not everyone has it.
World is an unfair, cruel place, and it’s heartbreaking to know how many children live in poor living conditions, how a recent earthquake in Turkey demolished thousands of lives, and how wars affect people who suffer tremendously, losing everything!Do we feel lucky seeing this? I feel privileged that these disasters never happened in my life.I feel for people. I try to help when I can. My family decided to let Ukrainian families live in our place in Poland. But that is still very little help. I live here in the United States, work and go to college, but others try to stay alive. When I say, I take one day at a time to survive, in my reality, others run from bombs! Nevertheless, every problem has value, and we also prepare this country for those who will survive wars, our children here,veterans and everyone who is here so that they can live good life.
My daughter is a person of color. I have known her father for many years. I was exposed to a massive injustice that affected my partner’s life, and I was sometimes afraid for his life. Knowing how many issues people of color experience makes me see how little we understand of human value. And how ugly it is to see racist comments toward people who built this country as enslaved people!! Reading Peggy McIntosh White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” made me recognize how many little knife-stabbing situations one can experience beyond what I already knew.
A day for me can be so dramatically different than a person of color, and we will go through the same situations. The list of 25 white privileges is very serious, and some of them are mind-opening, like the thrift shop clothing, newspapers with people of my race, cash in my pocket, or a neighborhood etc. Peggy McIntosh is very honest, and that shows that admitting to doing something wrong is ok. I guess that’s how you change. She is very clear, and her writing sounds a bit like a confession.
In Meryline Frye article, I strongly agree with what she called being oppressed. To expect a woman to smile is to push her( make her) not to complain and to accept what you have, no matter what you think. A woman who is speaking her mind is difficult to work with! How wrong and unfair this is. The comparison to a bird in a cage is very accurate. The cage shows the macroscopic phenomenon of pretending to have a good life but in real-life situations, the laws are taken away! You are praised if you are in control if your freedom to fly and be is taken away. You are a symbol of beauty to smile and obey, you are a mother or wife to place a role of a family member, and if you like to work without acceptance of a man, you are not a good family member, you aren’t a good mother.
Fake behavior covers the truth under the night. Opening a door by a gentleman seems fancy, but he might not obey that person’s fundamental rights in another situation.
I don’t like the word LADY, and I learn how not to use it anymore. I think it was made by men to control women. What is LAdy ???
