Assignment 6: White Privilege

Assignment 6: White Privilege

1: What is white privilege?   Have you seen it in action? Give examples.

White privilege is a cultural advantage given out to people with the color of skin white. Tim Wise have elaborated with a historic example of white people sarcastically privileged their race over the colored for their less involvement in the war. Only white people were allowed to join the civil service and the colored were not able to have the privileges white had serving the civil service, which is a genuine example of it.

After the video I can understand his phenomenon even better with the examples of his grand father who owned properties that were more than one which has helped their family up till his education. White even being anti Semitism owned property and his grand father passed on assets and wealth so that he could live a white life in New Orleans which most of the people cannot do. Inherited property passed on was something only a white could do because colored couldn't afford it.

2: What was the general thesis that the speaker was trying to make?

The speaker contributed an enormous amount of knowledge and valid substance to prove the topic that was under the argument. Hard work and access to the opportunities is important for success and hard work is found in every human kind on the planet but opportunities are only available for white race. This was the thesis statement the speaker was trying to explain with an explanation of colorblind model of race relation. It can be written that under the direction of this model, White people don't like to talk about race because of their tendency to not accept racism and believing that white and colored are one. On the other hand, they would perform a ...