Hello,
Racism. Respectful. I see myself as not racists and respectful. These view were before I read the Peggy McIntosh article. However, now I feel very racist. This is not because of how I see the world and the people in it, it because of these privileges that me, a white person, never takes the time to realize. I had a conversation with a guy that I live next to a while ago about affirmative action. He said, "They, not white, have had enough time to change things and they, not white, have had more than enough opportunities to change their situation." How is this though? The system has stayed the same. The nation is still predominately run by white men. Along with that fact though, it seems that if a person of color wants to be accepted in today's society that person has to change to be more like the white man. Like the TV show Scrubs, Turk, an African American man receives respect only because he is a surgeon, but where does the non surgeon African American man stand? With no respect. This fact makes me sad.
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