James
By the way do you know that they are worried to become a minority because they
fear we can treat them as they have treated us when we are a minority?
Em
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From: James Ololo
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 1:34 AM
Subject: [camnetwork] White Privilege Shapes The U.S. | Not for long
Race cards have been openly used in public in many
occassions and sometimes it is accepted and goes
without punishment.
They have used race as political campaign. In Britain,
the Labour Party used this slogan. "Torries say you're
black, we say you are British".
In United states, George Bush Senior campaigning
against Micheal Dukakis had this T.V. and Radio
commercial running.
'George Washington was a white', voice putting
emphasis on the word white. '6 foot 4, 'A Northern
Heritage'. The ad mentioned all tall Republican
Presidents along since US independence to Ronald
Reagan. George Bush is a white, 6 foot 3, A Northern
heritage... but Micheal Dukakis? the reader asks
childishly and the ad comes to an end. In this ad,
they are portraying Dukakis as a short near black man.
They use his Greek background to tell America that it
should not elect a Southern or near Africa Heritage
president.
All the same Edward, the game is about to change and
as you can clearly see, whites are already courting
Asia. They are clever people aren't they. When they
try to court you, you show them your back but continue
blaming them for your problems. Why don't you just
court them then we get a win-win situation?. Anyway,
US whites as we now know them will be in the minority
before the end of this century. But they are clever,
they could make race issues disappear from the arena
in less than 50 years. After all, aren't we all
Americans?
-James
--- Edward Mulindwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:50 PM
> Subject: [Ugnet] White Privilege Shapes The U.S.
>
>
> >
> >
> > *White Privilege Shapes The U.S.
> > by Robert Jensen*
> >
> >
> > Here's what white privilege sounds like:
> >
> > I am sitting in my University of Texas office,
> talking to a very bright
> > and very conservative white student about
> affirmative action in college
> > admissions, which he opposes and I support.
> >
> > The student says he wants a level playing field
> with no unearned
> > advantages for anyone. I ask him whether he thinks
> that in the United
> > States being white has advantages. Have either of
> us, I ask, ever
> > benefited from being white in a world run mostly
> by white people? Yes, he
> > concedes, there is something real and tangible we
> could call white
> > privilege.
> >
> > So, if we live in a world of white
> privilege--unearned white
> > privilege--how does that affect your notion of a
> level playing field? I
> > ask.
> >
> > He paused for a moment and said, "That really
> doesn't matter."
> >
> > That statement, I suggested to him, reveals the
> ultimate white privilege:
> > the privilege to acknowledge you have unearned
> privilege but ignore what
> > it means.
> >
> > That exchange led me to rethink the way I talk
> about race and racism with
> > students. It drove home to me the importance of
> confronting the dirty
> > secret that we white people carry around with us
> everyday: In a world of
> > white privilege, some of what we have is unearned.
> I think much of both
> > the fear and anger that comes up around
> discussions of affirmative action
> > has its roots in that secret. So these days, my
> goal is to talk openly and
> > honestly about white supremacy and white
> privilege.
> >
> > White privilege, like any social phenomenon, is
> complex. In a white
> > supremacist culture, all white people have
> privilege, whether or not they
> > are overtly racist themselves. There are general
> patterns, but such
> > privilege plays out differently depending on
> context and other aspects of
> > one's identity (in my case, being male gives me
> other kinds of privilege).
> > Rather than try to tell others how white privilege
> has played out in their
> > lives, I talk about how it has affected me.
> >
> > I am as white as white gets in this country. I am
> of northern European
> > heritage and I was raised in North Dakota, one of
> the whitest states in
> > the country. I grew up in a virtually all-white
> world surrounded by
> > racism, both personal and institutional. Because I
> didn't live near a
> > reservation, I didn't even have exposure to the
> state's only numerically
> > significant non-white population, American
> Indians.
> >
> > I have struggled to resist that racist training
> and the ongoing racism of
> > my culture. I like to think I have changed, even
> though I routinely trip
> > over the lingering effects of that internalized
> racism and the
> > institutional racism around me. But no matter how
> much I "fix" myself, one
> > thing never changes--I walk through the world with
> white privilege.
> >
> > What does that mean? Perhaps most importantly,
> when I seek admission to a
> > university, apply for a job, or hunt for an
> apartment, I don't look
> > threatening. Almost all of the people evaluating
> me for those things look
> > like me--they are white. They see in me a
> reflection of themselves, and in
> > a racist world that is an advantage. I smile. I am
> white. I am one of them
> > I am not dangerous. Even when I voice critical
> opinions, I am cut some
> > slack. After all, I'm white.
> >
> > My flaws also are more easily forgiven because I
> am white. Some complain
> > that affirmative action has meant the university
> is saddled with mediocre
> > minority professors. I have no doubt there are
> minority faculty who are
> > mediocre, though I don't know very many. As Henry
> Louis Gates Jr. once
> > pointed out, if affirmative action policies were
> in place for the next
> > hundred years, it's possible that at the end of
> that time the university
> > could have as many mediocre minority professors as
> it has mediocre white
> > professors. That isn't meant as an insult to
> anyone, but is a simple
> > observation that white privilege has meant that
> scores of second-rate
> > white professors have slid through the system
> because their flaws were
> > overlooked out of solidarity based on race, as
> well as on gender, class
> > and ideology.
> >
> > Some people resist the assertions that the United
> States is still a
> > bitterly racist society and that the racism has
> real effects on real
> > people. But white folks have long cut other white
> folks a break. I know,
> > because I am one of them.
> >
> > I am not a genius--as I like to say, I'm not the
> sharpest knife in the
> > drawer. I have been teaching full-time for six
> years, and I've published a
> > reasonable amount of scholarship. Some of it is
> the unexceptional stuff
> > one churns out to get tenure, and some of it, I
> would argue, actually is
> > worth reading. I work hard, and I like to think
> that I'm a fairly decent
> > teacher. Every once in awhile, I leave my office
> at the end of the day
> > feeling like I really accomplished something. When
> I cash my paycheck, I
> > don't feel guilty.
> >
> > But, all that said, I know I did not get where I
> am by merit alone. I
> > benefited from, among other things, white
> privilege. That doesn't mean
> > that I don't deserve my job, or that if I weren't
> white I would never have
> > gotten the job. It means simply that all through
> my life, I have soaked up
> > benefits for being white. I grew up in fertile
> farm country taken by force
> > from non-white indigenous people. I was educated
> in a well-funded,
> > virtually all-white public school system in which
> I learned that white
> > people like me made this country great. There I
> also was taught a variety
> > of skills, including how to take standardized
> tests written by and for
> > white people.
> >
> > All my life I have been hired for jobs by white
> people. I was accepted for
> > graduate school by white people. And I was hired
> for a teaching position
> > at the predominantly white University of Texas,
> which had a white
> > president, in a college headed by a white dean and
> in a department with a
> > white chairman that at the time had one non-white
> tenured professor.
> >
> > There certainly is individual variation in
> experience. Some white people
> > have had it easier than me, probably because they
> came from wealthy
> > families that gave them even more privilege. Some
> white people have had it
> > tougher than me because they came from poorer
> families. White women face
>
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