- priviledge (white, male, skin color)
- oppressiveness
- equalness
- challenge
- whiteness
- conferred dominance
- systematic change
- power
- damaged culture
- race / racial identity
- unfairness
- society
- daily experience
- dominant race
Arguement
Our society and most significantly those individuals of the unearned skin priviledges, need to become aware of our racialy damaged culture in order to find parallels to remove dominant racial groups that we are taught to remain oblivious to.
Evidence
"whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow "them" to be more like "us".
McIntosh is bringing up an interesting point that was pointed out by one of her colleagues - whites are are raised and taught to look at their lives as neutral while being oblivious to the realities of race.
"Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already."
1 comment:
You got the argument and evidence... now what do you think of it? Do you buy her claims? Do you feel what she says in your own life?
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