White Privilege by Peggy McIntosh

Quotes

1.   “I have come to see White Privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but which I was meant to remain oblivious.”

·         This quote is very true, it means that white people can have anything and everything, but we need to act like they don’t know. 

2.      “Whites are thought to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit other, this is seen as work that will allow them to be more like us.”

·         I truly don’t see this quote being accurate.

·         This quote states that we want others to be like us.  Why when supposedly whites don’t like the colored people. 

3.      “Many, perhaps most of our white students in the US think that racism does not affect them because they are not people of color, they don’t see whiteness as a racial identity.

·         We need to stress to these children that yes their white but people of color are racist against whites just as whites are racist against people of color.  It’s just as dangerous.

This article was right on the button with everything it said.  A lot of the stuff in this article, people doesn’t want to see it or even acknowledge it.  But it is there and it is true.  This article is very blunt and forward.