White Privilege Privilege is obtained by a person and everyone has an inherent privilege. Peggy McIntosh however believed some benefit from their privilege more‚ particularly men and whites. She believes that there is an unrecognized white privilege and those who benefit from it need to acknowledge it. She goes deeply in defining this privilege so everyone who is reading has a very clear understanding of what white privilege is. It is necessary for her to convince us to believe that white privilege
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Introduction The movie The Blind Side is about a homeless‚ male‚ African-American teenager Michael Oher (Big Mike) who is taken in by the Tuohy family. Michael grew up never knowing who his father was and his mother wasn’t anything but a drug addict who he was taken away from when he was a child. Michael had very little education but had preformed strong in “protective instincts” which is later on used to help motivate his football skills and eventually shape his football career. The Tuohy’s provided
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readings seemed to have different topics yet also many similarities. The first reading which was “The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the Discourse of “ White Privilege ’’ by Zeus Leonardo tells us how white privilege is part of the reason why racism prevails even today. The reading even somewhat bolsters McIntosh’s argument that sometimes‚ white people simply aren’t even aware of their ‘ privileges ’. I however‚ feel that racism persists because people let it persist. Racism is not a thing of the past
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Thank you for your thought-provoking posts Kik and Maggie. Maggie‚ you are accurate when you emphasized a clear disparity in healthcare privileges. Kik‚ what you mentioned about measuring point of poverty is death is a painful message we see now. We complain of simple things‚ like how it is hot and humid it is in Florida‚ yet we can address this by having a glass of icy cold water or maybe a trip to the nearest ice cream parlor to cool us off. But in the other parts of the globe‚ lack of clean
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Blind people research Blindness is a disability that comes from birth‚ but other times it comes with the years. It’s a very complicated disability that thirty nine million people around the world need to face. Many scientific researchers have found out that when people are born blind‚ their brain is capable of refining their abilities to touch or hear. We never thought about how a blind person perceives the world‚ we never imagine how a person that cant see anything‚ thinks about the world
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themselves. By realizing this and examining my privilege throughout this
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Since I was absent on the day the class participated in the privilege walk‚ I am researching the effects of privilege for this assignment. While researching I found a very interesting cartoon picture about privilege. So I can keep this short here is a link for the whole comic: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate. One thing I noticed from this comic is the connection I felt towards Paula. Our childhoods are very similar. Another aspect I noticed was the complete separation
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crime rates‚ education and more. Privileges towards whites has affected blacks in many ways. Within society today whites are showered more with many privileges than what blacks are. In the following paper I will argue the invisibility amongst blacks and how the visibility of whites is always spoken upon society. Privilege is important because it shows the positive advantages
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Movie Review “The Blind Side” is based on the remarkable true story of Baltimore Ravens offensive left tackle Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron). Michael grew up in the inner city housing projects with his mother in Memphis‚ Tennessee aptly named “Hurt Village”. Michael’s story begins with him being homeless and coming from a broken home with a drug-addicted mother‚ and an absentee father. Because of his family circumstances‚ Family Services took control of his life as he was growing up. Unfortunately
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These factors affect the way an average person lives his or her life‚ as each individual comes from a different culture and background. Another forgotten factor of America is the king of privilege a person will receive. On Thursday‚ the class did the privilege line test in order to see how there are unseen privileges that an individual tend to oversee. Some students had more obstacles in their life than others. In the beginning of the activity‚ I noticed how excited everyone was‚ despite the heat‚ however
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