Cyber-Assignment
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
We did watch the film today, so reflect once again on the term "privilege" and now that you have seen the film, "Mirrors of Privilege" how your definition might have expended or shifted. Talk about the film and its arguments. You don't have to agree with the premises, so a counterargument is certainly okay. The details about the assignment are in yesterday's post.
You can post your essay here. I think I asked you to bring in a paper copy to share tomorrow morning or a laptop with the document open (smile).
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
We did watch the film today, so reflect once again on the term "privilege" and now that you have seen the film, "Mirrors of Privilege" how your definition might have expended or shifted. Talk about the film and its arguments. You don't have to agree with the premises, so a counterargument is certainly okay. The details about the assignment are in yesterday's post.
You can post your essay here. I think I asked you to bring in a paper copy to share tomorrow morning or a laptop with the document open (smile).
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 1:20 PM
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Richard Myers
Professor Sabir
English 1A – Mon-Thurs – 11-11:50pm
24 August 2010
Thoughts on Mirrors of Privilege
Within our lives people come and go, however family is generally what lasts. Many of the stories documented within “Mirrors of Privilege” are heartfelt depictions of how our society’s penchant for non-diversification affect’s the lives of people of all color.
Growing up in a lower-middle class family I don’t believe that I can count very many instances of white privilege, however I’m sure there were some. I, quite honestly have not thought of this in any depth until now. There have never been any instances that I can recall for example of my being placed on a higher pedestal (so to speak) and an individual of color being passed over, although I’m sure I could eventually identify something. However, I will share this with you. I have an aunt and uncle who were unable to have children (a white couple). They decided to adopt and after jumping through many hoops brought a young black baby into their arms. They raised her with all the love and care that any parent would, however they did incur some dissention from people of all color. Some understood, and some simply didn’t. When she was in her teens we made a trip to an amusement park, just the two of us and my girlfriend at the time. During this trip I do recall some odd looks from individuals as well as a few uncomfortable silences. So, I can relate somewhat to the young lady with an adopted family member of color. It’s not an easy thing to overcome.
So what can we do you ask? Keep spreading the word, don’t take “I don’t want to hear it” for an answer and never back down. From the ground level to the public policy level there should be awareness but it needs to be done intelligently.
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Frena Zamudio
Professor Sabir
English 1A Mon-Thurs 11-11:50am
August 24, 2010
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
After watching the film, hearing and learning different stories from different kinds of people through their perspective, I realized how racism is pretty active all over the country. I do not remember much incidents of Filipino privilege in my past (if there was any) at all. Well, I can say that I did not pay that much attention to it, until now, until now that I am more mature and exposed to a lot of things including media that shows me how there is really a difference between white and colored people. Sometimes I think racism became worse because of the way people interpret it, the way they react to certain things. I mean, if we only just try to get along and be fair, it may somehow work, make our community a better place. California is diverse but at the same time, a bit segregated. People from all over the world, different ethnicities live here in California but sometimes because of the diversity, where people are so exposed to one another, the tension goes up, we see each others mistakes right away and that’s where conflicts start. Conflicts of wanting acceptance, fairness and truth. Racism does not just destroy family but also the whole community since racism, sexism, violence and harassment are all connected to one another. When an African American man responded to a white woman ,“educate your people” when she asked if what are the things she could do to help have equality to all race, I felt so bad even though who knows, maybe he was right, but I never thought one would ever say such thing. That statement gave white people feeling of guilt and shame for having what they called “white privilege”.
Ji Won Park
Professor Sabir
English 1A Mon-Thurs 11-11:50am
August 24, 2010
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
The film “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible” was very eye-opening and reemphasized a lot of the problems faced with racism. It wasn’t just people hating against another race but more of the emotional struggles and personal experiences dealt due to it. Especially in the case of the whites vs. blacks, it was not only the African Americans who were hurt. One of the ladies being interviewed wanted to help racism not become an issue in which she was thrown with the words “educate your own people.” Those were very powerful words (of course not in a good way) in which it shows how racism has stooped into a level so deep that it’s almost hard to fix it. Also, when someone had defined affirmative action and that it’s not putting a race before another but putting them at the same position was very true. We can’t always garner one race just because they are being prejudiced. We have to treat them as we treat one another rather than trying to make them feel better. In the case of white people, it shouldn’t be guilt either unless one did truly act this way. Instead of spending time in feeling guilty, they should use that time to admit the wrongs and work on improving this issue. It’s because of our opinions and judgments that hold us back from fixing this issue. Instead of everyone viewing racism as a cause, we need to continually bring it up in order for it to not become a dust in the corner.
Olivia Sakhuja
English 1 A
M-Th 11:00-11:50am
24.8.10
I found that the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible was neither touching nor moving. It touched on the unoriginal idea that racism very much still exists around us and we must take action to improve and prevent it. The white people that were interviewed shared experiences in which they were privileged, that ultimately led them to the decision to fight to end racial injustice.
One woman talks about a time she got stopped for speeding, but she didn't get a ticket. Once the cop leaft, the woman turned to a Mexican-American girl in the car and teold her if it had been her or her brother driving, they most likely would have gotten a ticket. While a lot of the comments in this video irritate me, this one comment did hit close to home, because I am constantly getting tickets. I am half east Indian and half white American. I look essentially like a tan white person with some exotic touch. In my first year of driving I got 4 tickets, and not because I was a bad driver (3 miles over the speed limit? In the middle of nowhere? Absurd). My father who is Indian experiences the same thing, while my mother has never gotten a ticket in her life.
I wouldn't say I'm not privileged because of that though. I am very much privileged. And at the end of the day I am one of those people that doesn't care that there is racism in the world (mind you, I'm more aware of it than I'd like to be), and I am unmoved even if the racism is directed towards me.
Rocio Gallardo
English 1A
August 24, 2010
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
To be privileged, a person would have gained special advantages than others for whatever the reason may be. I, myself as an individual, am not entirely privileged in this society because I’m a minority; I’m a Hispanic female. As a female, I am not taken seriously by men. Back in high school, I felt privileged knowing that by staying out of trouble and by working real hard, I had the privilege of attending my senior prom. In this situation, I had earned the opportunity to go, where as others who did the opposite of my actions couldn’t. A time I felt I was at a distinct disadvantage was when I had applied for a job, but unexpectedly, the manager decided to hire someone who was white. It definitely was an upsetting situation, and I felt inferior.
In the film, Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, it depicted and explained the stories of the white community who have gotten a taste of what a minority has to go through, whether it be in their time or in ours. Their stories have shown that there is much segregation all over the country, even after a century of hardship. Much of what minorities go through are racism, sexism, violence, harassment, and much more. All the difficulties are connected in how prejudice in this country has kept the majority of its people closed-minded. In order to fix our wrongs, there first has to be a structured community in where we don’t favor one race over the other. A quote mentioned in the movie, “We are crawling on our knees on the shards of broken glass where we thought we could trust someone.” When we as minorities feel that we’re equal as everyone else, reality jumps back in, just to prove that many can’t see past black or white.
Response to Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
After watching the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, I feel that privilege is something that can be earned and something that you are born with as well. In this case, the privilege of being white is something that whites are born with and what we watched throughout the whole movie. I am of Mexican descent, therefore white privileges for me are out of the question. I think the privilege I have is being male in a male dominated society. Being male has given me privileges and thus has allowed me to do many things that my sisters couldn't do when I was younger, for instance going out with friends at night. A time where I felt at a disadvantage because I didn't have privileges would be when I go to my local corner store. I've been going to the same store for years now, 6+ easily since I lived in the same location when I attended Westlake Middle School. I've known the owners for ages, but when they get new hire they start eyeing me funny. It didn't happen before, but I guess what they see is my skin color and not me. It doesn't happen anymore since I'm fine with that person now. I guess this film didn't affect me much at all. I know there is racism and sexism in the world but I'm a pacifist/cynic, I just don't care much.
Maxx Bartko
August 24, 2010
Privilege is an advantage based on one’s identity, which can include: race, class, sex, gender, sexual preference, location, religion, and body type, among others. Any identity considered the ‘norm’ in society develops privilege by taking on a false sense of universality. Anyone privileged with a ‘norm’ identity will have the sympathies of society and its institutions; the ‘other’, which society defines only by what it is not, will be deprived of those same sympathies and may be treated with suspicion or contempt. An example is that American society tends to expect its residents to share the white American experience, privileging those who do and punishing those who don’t.
I am most certainly privileged: I am a white, heterosexual, upper-middle class American male. I know I’m privileged not because of what has happened to me necessarily, but because of what has happened to people who do the exact same things I do. For instance: sometimes I listen to loud music when I drive. I remember several instances in high school when I would be driving around blasting music with my friend Jacob, a black man. If we were to pass any police cars, he would turn the music down until we had well passed the officer. The first time he did it, I asked him why; he explained to me that police have pulled him over several times on that very road, citing his loud music as justification for doing so. I never even noticed that officers were regularly stationed on that road until he brought those incidents to my attention. I don’t believe I’ve ever felt similarly disadvantaged, due to the biologically assigned portions of my identity fitting in with the ‘norm’.
As for the film itself, I felt its heart was very much in the right place, but it tends to preach to the choir. I don’t mean this entirely as a negative, but while white guilt testimonials and dance performances may appeal to the (assumedly intended) white liberal demographic, the same features may alienate those who are weary of ‘bleeding heart’ political correctness, including ‘people of color’.
On the other hand, the film does express an important, elusive idea to their target audience. The concept of institutionalized racism, much like patriarchy or heteronormativity, is almost impossible to transmit for the very reasons outlined in the film: the privileged do not experience discrimination and assume that their society is fair, or they may internalize their stereotypes and believe that systemic inequality is an unavoidable, natural, and perhaps just phenomenon. Even more difficult is to express that bigotry is to be unlearned, that it is often not explicit or conscious; well-meaning liberals tend to take issue with this. The film does a great job of reaching them, and therefore is a success in its intention to re-educate whites through anti-racist role modeling.
(Maxx again)
The first sentence of the fourth paragraph should read:
'On the other hand, the film does express an important, elusive idea to its target audience.'
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
Privilege is a gift that your born with, it can’t be taken from you and you live with it day by day. I associate it with wealth and social status and in many cases color or ethnicity.In the movie “Mirrors of Privilege” white people talk about their experiences with non-Caucasian people. It never occurred to me until seeing the film that white people were somewhat unaware and even guilty at times that they had this privilege. When a guy was talking about how he entered the store and the security instantly followed the black guy I related to the experience of the one who looked suspicious because of their ethnicity. I too feel like I could be the target of security as a person of color.
At times I do feel that I am privileged because I have grown up with more than say a person in a third world country which makes me appreciate all that I have even if it isn’t much. The fact that I was born here opens a door but only a tiny crack but it’s up to me to push it all the way open. As a child of immigrant parents I realize that my struggles are nothing compared to theirs, and I can call that a privilege. I’m able to move freely in the wider English speaking culture. For instance I can attend college.
On the other hand there are things that I’m certainly lacking which I see as the opposite of privileged like growing up poor in Oakland in a rough neighborhood. I look around and I notice this invisible force weighing down on the people who feel like they don’t have a voice or the means to making their lives better. Being a young female teenager doesn’t help much either,I have to work harder. I’ve seen teachers giving special treatment to guys just because their male. Therefore as long I’m female, I’m at a disadvantage.
- Denise Martinez
Jose Nambo
English 1A
August 24, 2010
Privilege Movie Response
This movie talks about "white privilege" as I'm sure most people would agree is not just an assumption or a theory that people have in their minds. it is actually a real fact that maybe a white person driving has more privilege of doing so then a person of color. The reasons that privileges are limited to only some people does have something to do with a person earning the opportunity for something like driving with freedom but also skin color plays a big role in having this privilege of doing so.
Being Latino with a drivers license does not give me the full privilege to drive freely that if my skin were white. The police does not look at a Latino as having the privilege to drive but sees a Latino as a criminal.
Many people who are immigrants in this country feel like those born here have the privilege for a drivers license. Even with a drivers license a cop would pull me over because my skin color covers up the privileges I have. White people have privileges that minorities don't have the opportunities to obtain.
Esbeyde Cardenas
Professor Sabir
English 1A
Due 8-25-2010
"Mirrors of Privilige"
After watching this film and going back to my notes on what I think privilige is, I mention rights and social status but I failed to mention race and race is what this film focused on. This filmed discuss how families and indivuals have been impacted by white privilige. One thing that stood out to me was how one of the girls had black cousins even though she was white and she love them very much. But once they move and they weren't hardly any blacks she was scare she would loose her friends for expressing her love to her cousins. After this film I feel that I too have been underprivilige and affected by white privilige. My dad is and immigrant from Mexico, I'm first generation here and I can't recall the number of times we have walk into a store and look at as if we can't afford something or can't speak English, or called beaners. I once worked at a prodominantly white and a white costumer walked in as i went to served him he said I don't want you beaner to serve me. Therefore I feel that white are more privilege than others. But like the lady in the video said what would happen to privilege if racial equality existed?
Rochelle Predovic
Eng 1A
8/24/10
"Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness visible" (Essay)
After watching, "Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible" I expanded my definition by one more word. Privilege is an allowance to perform a task well, which is why I did not bother applying to a University in my senior year of High school. After all the comments I have seen on my assigned papers, there are no improvements made on my part. I even remember looking at these comments in order to help me avoid these mistakes on the next paper, and then I would receive a comment saying that I did not follow advice or directions. Part of the problem is that I have trouble understanding what I have done wrong. My chances of being accepted to the University of California Berkeley would be very small. This where I would be at a distinct disadvantage and where a talented writer would be at a distinct advantage.
An Example of when I felt privileged took place in Pre-calculus during my junior year. The chapter we were on covered logarithms, which was the easiest chapter in my opinion. Mr. Raher told us to solve a math problem in our notes, from the lecture. As I solved the problem, Mr. Raher noticed that everyone else was looking at my paper because they did not know how to solve it. Therefore, when I understood the math problem I felt privileged enough to solve it. Since my writing skills are not where they should be, I am not privileged to apply to a University.
“Mirrors of Privilege” defines privilege as an advantage that certain people are born into. If one possesses a privilege they cannot reject it or avoid it. The film focuses largely on white privilege. From watching this film I can determine that I am privileged because I am white. As a white person I do not encounter much of the racism that people of other races in this country experience on a regular basis.
I have experienced feeling privileged and disadvantaged when applying for jobs. I once entered a restaurant to apply for a job as a waitress and, upon entering the restaurant, the owner immediately asked when I could start working and gave me the job. There was no interview or application process, he hired me solely based on the way I look. When I was given the job I felt privileged because I did not in any way earn the job. In the time that I worked there, I watched large amounts of people try to get jobs, and it was apparent that the owner made the decision the moment they walked in the door.
I had quite a different experience when I applied for a job at Chipotle. I felt strongly disadvantaged because the entire staff was Mexican. Although the company boasts equal opportunity employment, I believe that people of Latin descent are more likely to be hired. Employers often seek certain types of people to fill positions, and the qualities they are looking for are frequently inherited.
- Cosette Schanilec
Patrick Brown
Professor Sabir
English 1A Mon-Thurs 11-11:50am
August 24, 2010
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
After viewing this film I am forced to concede that my previous definition of the word privilege is incorrect. A privilege is not something earned at all. And its exclusivity is only harmful. In relation to the film, the term “white privilege” was used several times. In American society, white privilege is the cause of much strife and tension. In one scene, a contributor describes a scenario where she attempted to explain white privilege to her daughter. This woman was a teacher who had a student who would often house sit for her while she was gone. And whenever she left she felt she had to warn the neighbors that this young man would be coming to her house. Her definition of white privilege was this: if he where a white man, she would not have to give that warning. The problem is that even now white people are not given the proper education about modern-day racism. They are taught that racism is defined as these big, obvious, overt gestures of discrimination. Therefore white people may believe that just because they are not committing violent acts or using racial slurs that they are not perpetuating the problem when in fact, they could be. This also address another term the film uses, the “pathology of white people”. This is the disturbing phenomenon in which white people can believe they are not racist when in fact they are. The film’s example being that many white people will go to church during the day and to a lynching at night. In their minds there is no conflict of principle between these activities. It is things like white privilege and the deeply rooted racism that exists in our society that keeps racial justice from becoming a reality. It seems so sad that even now human beings can’t’ seem to get past something as simple as equality of the species. Unfortunately it will still take quite a bit of time before the general population is educated and tolerate. However, anyone who sees this movie can help expedite the processes.
Phillip Powell
Professor Sabir
English 1A- Mon-Thurs- 11-11:50
24 August 2010
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
In the video they were talking about racism. Everyone that had the privilege was white. Some said that they grew up watching their family use racial slurs in their home. With me being black, I was raised hearing racial slurs too. Also how bad white people treated other races. Even in today’s society there is still racism that goes on. The color of your skin or where you come from shouldn’t matter. When you let the racial facts go out the window, and you really get to know someone, then you can judge them. Once you get the privilege to actually know someone of another race, and see what they have to go through, then maybe diversity will not matter. Everybody that spoke in the film had the privilege to experience and understands why they should end their racial injustice. Like the teacher who lost it, when a black student whispered something under her breathe. He didn’t know where that came from, it was just within him. He also realized that what he just did was not necessary at all, and that he probably did that because she was black. Everyone has the privilege of having a choice; a choice to end their hatred, guilt, or fear in racial injustice. Privileged people also have the choice to open the eyes of unprivileged people. By playing sports, I was privileged to see both, the white and black culture. I have learned that we are all the same on the inside, regardless what culture you come from.
Jacob Stabler
Professor Sabir
English 1A Mon-Thurs 11-11:50am
August 24, 2010
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
After watching this film, it's clear to me what the agenda is: White Guilt. I'm a white man, have lived many very different places in this country and most recently, Savannah, Ga. I grew up in South Florida and lived in San Diego where more often than not, I was the minority. The outcome is always the same. Race isn't an issue until someone makes it an issue. I've gotten no "white privilages" at any point in my life. I have a slew of speeding tickets, been passed up for jobs and have worked hard for everything I have. Hate doesn't discriminate, and race shouldn't be the first card pulled when things don't go according to plan. It seemed like the each person in this movie had some event that led to their "white guilt" prompting them to take further action and over compensate for what ever negative event it was that bothered them. In the film they talk about this country being built on the backs of slaves and Chinese laborors but what it fails to mention is that nearly every civilization since the beginning of time was built on the backs of slaves, usually their own people. The people in this movie, in my opinion, were a bit naive and sheltered. I got the vibe they came from small towns in where people of color were few and far between. This film doesn't keep perspective, in fact it strays pretty far away from it. The past is the past and if we can't move forward, then our evolution stops.
(throws drumsticks down)
Bethlehem Biru
Professor Sabir
8/25/2010
English 1A
MAKING WHITENESS VISIBLE
The movie talks about surprisingly stories into the world of racism. Creating the difference that most individuals are sorrunded by today. white people are part of their whiteness that can not be change. We’ve learned not to see people by the color of their skin , but how they represent and eliborate themselves. Racism is a continuration from generation to generation, where whites feel no responsibility and urge to change it. In this series of conversations with white people who have thought deeply about race and the action of racism. Base on this series the privilege and benefit that most white has is causing segregation war, african americans are giving certain types of jobs and allowed to live in thw worst environment. The system is intended to destroy the lives of other race. Most white feel guilty of the fact that they are not racist and want to do something to feel good about themselves. The movie shows how people of colors face pain and hurts from racism, a pain that damage the human mind and separate families. Throughout the film, some scenarios are powerfully illustrated in dance. One tableau shows three people down on all fours lined up shoulder to shoulder. Across their backs reclines a white woman, languorously reading a book, oblivious to the trembling arms of the black man who’s holding her up.This film carries out research on different aspect on educational performance, and one aspect that stands out form all is, racism in school. Although the precise findings of studies have varied, most have found that, overall, ethnic minorities (blacks, Asians and other nationalities) tend to do less well than other members in the population.
The comments are very well written and expressed. I didn't see any comments on other student's summary/analysis.
Don't forget, for every cyber assignment students have to respond to at least one post and name the student writer you are rsponding to.
Today, in class, we watched a film entitled "Mirrors of privilege: making whiteness Visible" with the intent of analyzing whether the presented media had an altering affection to our disposition on the nature of privilege or if our disposition remains relatively static and to scribe the how and why of our individual results.
For myself subjectivity remains inertially resistant to perspectively irrelevant media. The nature of privilege is seeded in control. to possess privileges, to be privileged is to be controlled. The very existence of privilege, of what we can do, demands intrinsically what we cannot do. Privilege is but the prettier, attractive face on the coin of social rule. The nature of the tender is limited by what we tolerate.
The film presented a myriad of individuals deeply hurt and horrified at the existence of racism. Instead of somehow altering my disposition on privilege the film elicted contempt and misanthropic dissapointment. I find it disillusioning that Humanity current proves so incorrigably incompetant as to be incapable of achieving something so basic, simple and integral as equality of the species.
For these reasons of misanthropic ire and the subjective irrelevance of the film, my disposition concerning the nature of privilege is homeostatic.
-Michael Kelley
Maxx Bartko
Professor Sabir
27 August 2010
English 1A
Invisible Whiteness
To respond to Jacob's comment, I have to wonder how he knows he has no "white privilages" if he's never been anything but white. What other experience does he have to compare it to? One's own experience is an incredibly small sample size; in order to make sense of racial matters and the perceptions of people of other races, it's necessary to incorporate experiences other than just white ones. There's an implication here that anyone 'still' talking about racism is either making excuses or being over-sensitive, as their claims are irrelevant.
Even if his claim that "nearly every civilization...was built on the backs of slaves, usually their own people" was true, Europeans literally abducted natives from Africa to perform slave labor.
To say "the past is the past" carries with it the expectation that racism magically disappeared with the last two generations. I highly encourage Jacob to look into how many police officers have been exposed as Ku Klux Klan members even today. Neither of us would ever know if we were stopped by one of them; we're white.
Stabler, Jacob. “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible.” 24 Aug. 2010. Internet.
Privileged
` by Dorothy Cooper
By definition privilege means to have a special advantage, immunity, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual or class of people. In this case were talking about the differences produced by racism against blacks or any other race for that matter. The Film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible not only gives insight on their thoughts and understanding, but for the viewer it re-educates the mind of those who have been conditioned to believe that this is the way life is.
I'm a 80's baby meaning racism has been around long before I was born. As I grew older I began to realize that blacks around me including myself felt inferior to whites, I didn't want to admit it but it was true. I felt like they were treated better or was “privileged”, for some reason they seemed to be liked by their own race and in a sense feared by ours.
I recall a time being in a shopping mall where majority of the consumers were black and latino all in the same place at the same time and the security guards seemed to have had a GPS on at least half of the black men and women. They were under the assumption that a black person was more likely to shoplift (in this case) than any other person, the typical sterotype for black men and women. A man mentioned in the film that his dad had told him that black people were bad and would harm him and if they got close enough would steal from him. My point is that as a race we start to feel so under privileged that we allow room in our own hearts and minds to become racists towards ourselves. I know at least somewhere in the back of our minds we wonder, why?why is happening? Understanding the pathology of whites as the lady said in the film is that the fact of the matter was not about fairness. It was about implementing a plan that would oppress this race of people and to make as much money as possible doing it.
This ideology was built on profit and the people in this film even had to admit that this way of life wasn't right. Their children having to deal with the guilt of their ancestors. The examples given proved that there is no equality in America. Can that much pain and suffering be forgiven? Can we just miraculously become the change we want to take place and get down to the root of the problem, or will we band aid the situation to suppress the impact that this has on our everyday lives? These are just questions some of us may want to ask The effect this has had on our generation is what we experience today has created great barriers in communication and advocacy, however the fact that change is inevitable gives us hope.
Marco Gutierrez
Professor Sabir
English 1A
24 August 2010
Response to Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
After hearing the stories of white people who choose to contribute to segregate the color people, they choose to use racism as a tool to create barriers and divide them from normal society in multiple regions of America. Not all whites are racist to color people, some have chosen to be racist from other whites and oppress with their fellow race. For those that lived secluded from color, they make their choice.
Watching this film has realized what privilege meant to me. To begin, privilege to me as a Mexican American is contributing the changes we have made for our country or group of people from small to big. Living in the land of opportunity and many battles for civil rights throughout the course of history, there was little record of racism until someone comes out and fights for justice and for truth. The fight is not only for Mexican Americans but for colors as well, social oppression for all of us to be privilege.
The vision of whites looking for privilege are less documented throughout recorded history, as they have not been victims of hate crimes or segregation. The whites, just as the color are looking for ways to change them as racism and hate crimes divides them further and will eventually get hurt as hate crimes continue to escalate. We got the power from some whites to help us to find privilege and find the truth and to which we have to discover ourselves without hate and segregation.
Denise Martinez
Professor Sabir
English 1A
30 August 2010
"Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible"
Response to Rocio Gallardo's post,I completely understood where she was coming from when she said she was at a disadvantage when the white person got hired instead of her,sure we're teens and I actually don't see many white teens with jobs at least not at McDonald's or Marshall's but if it came down to choosing who they'd hire 9/10 they'd choose the white person. Rocio said "In order to fix our wrongs there first has to be a structured community where we don't favor one race over the other." I think minorities are still being targeted and get put into these situations because of not only history but also politics if there was more diverse people in the White House,who were honest and had a passion for helping out their community it'd be different.
Jacob Stabler
Professor Sabir
English 1A
1 September 2010
I thought Michael Kelley's response to the movie was both astute anad well written. His sentence "I find it disillusioning that Humanity current proves so incorrigably incompetant as to be incapable of achieving something so basic, simple and integral as equality of the species." really spoke to me and reminded me this film had a clear agenda.
Rochelle Predovic
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
September 2, 2010
Response to Philip Powell's Post
This is a great response. Even though not everyone is perfect, most generations have the ability to tell right from wrong, and learn from their mistakes. Lastly, not every one completely resembles their parents.
works cited
Powell, Philip. "Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible." Weblog comment. Professor Wanda's Posse. 24 Aug. 2010. Web. 2 Sept. 2010. .
Quan Lin
Professor Sabir
English 1A
24 August 2010
Privilege
Privilege has many meaning depending on its point of view or perspective. In the perspective of race, the white race of people are seen as the dominate species where their privileges out shine those of the other races. In fact they give all the benefits and advantages of being white as oppose to of colored people. The video also takes a twist as it changes to the perspective of white people letting them tell their side of the story, the side of the story that no one knew and the side of discontent that they have. In their perspective on privilege, it is something entirely different from the perspective of what others see them as. There is no solution to this hypothetical problem, as there really isn’t a problem rather just point of views an ideas that all individuals have. Everyone thinks differently of what is privilege and to people of different races it means something totally different. Everyone wants something they don’t have, as cliché as that sounds, it could be related to privilege, one might think that another is privilege due to a specific reason(s) however others can also see them as privilege, but just not in the same way as they do.
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