The list of Daily effects of White privilege that McIntosh describe are perfect examples. White people are not stereotyped like other races are. Guaranteed the white couple would get in before me. This is a place that is known for catering to people who have high dividends. A white couple also enters that same restaurant/social lounge well dressed. If I were to go into a 5star restaurant well dressed with designer clothes and had millions in my purse. ![]() It doesn’t matter how much we do, how hard we work, how much money we have, what person we marry, who’s ass we kiss. There are so many things that minorities will never have the opportunity to fully experience or understand because we are not white Even though society has come a long way it still has a longer way to go. I would definitely have to agree with what is being said. These statements opened my mind up to many thoughts about the way that society treats others in comparison to the way that white people are treated. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.” I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was “meant” to remain oblivious. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. Then she continues on to say, “I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. The essay opens up by McIntosh quoting herself saying, “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.”Īs McIntosh continues on in her essay she later states,”As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage. This was after having read an essay entitled, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, written by Peggy McIntosh, associate director of Wellesley Collage Center for Research on Women. ![]() ![]() Our class led a brief discussion about white privilege. Summary to “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
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