Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Is a broke white person still privileged?
This article says they are. I read this at the beginning of this second half of the semester and I thought I posted but didn't so here it is. Even if a white person isn't born with a silver spoon in hand, being white still allows for privileges to allow success. Yes work is involved but it is still easier!
Very interesting read.
http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person
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Great article. Economic resources, of lack thereof, doesn't determine racial privilege--it is those unearned assets that goes with, for example, skin color. Privileges are attached to racial identity, conceptually, without any other information about that person. A poor white person may not have class privilege but they do have racial privilege, whether they use it or not. That is why privilege, as a concept and process, is so hard for people to understand--it is not that they cannot understand it intellectually but because their day-to-day experiences have such a dearth of any advantages or assets that it is hard to recognize an "unearned asset."
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