Peggy McIntosh stated “describing white privilege makes one newly accountable.” Does it really? No, it doesn’t. However, I’d like to think that we all understand what she meant. Because the real deal, is that we have the option to choose to be accountable, and that applies to everything. Just imagine, if you can, our society if just after each of our ‘ah hah’ moments we chose to become accountable and began to apply the new lesson…the new wisdom to our lives…we’d be slammin!!!
But, as we all know, there will always be those folks that, for whatever reasons they fear, will want to remain mired in severe ignorance! And guess who religiously depends on that cemented stupidity???? Yep, that’s right; you guessed it……THE HIERARCHY!!!!!
Yes, there will always be someone from that group crying out for a serious beat down, but we, HIST 359, won’t be the ones to get down and roll in the gutter with them. And that’s because the moment we decided to utilize our privilege and stay registered, we chose to become accountable!
S. Ramos, Post #16
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