Saturday, April 2, 2011

White Privilage: The silence is louder then the noise #16

White Privilege is one of those things that no one person can be blamed for its unrealistic to expect any one whole race of people to shoulder the sins of their whole race. Most of all it’s not fair. But say it was expected of all of us to feel some sort of guilt? Where would your guilt lie? This just doesn’t work: White privilege is a network of systematic unspoken words and unseen action. Its most undetected even though much like cotton it’s the fabric of our lives (infested with bedbugs) The deciding factor of this matter is things that White persons on a individual level chooses to accept via keeping silent or no acknowledging that this system exist and is warped; especially if you’re only ignoring these facts for the sake of holding on to the perks of this madness. I’m very passionate about this matter even more so then ever before this class has afforded me the chance to think in about race/discrimination as a whole in many different ways, ways I never have before. Some of these issues have caused me internal conflict in which I really don’t know when or how they will be resolved but all I want to do is grow from all of this. And this is how I would like to think of white privilege systems just simply as unfair practices that through acknowledgement, growth not guilty! It can be outgrown by our nation and the whole world. This system can become obsolete. This concept of privilege is carried out all around the world: In South Africa during apartheid white Africans where favored Hutu’s over Tutsi people his ended in genocide. India has a cast system favors Brahmin's over the “untouchables”. In Japan still chooses person for employment based on their (last name) lineage favoring shoguns and dynasties over other less prominent bloodlines. See these social stratification's and life limitations happen all over.

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