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My vocabulary is not angry enough for this article. EVEN CAPSLOCK CANNOT ADEQUATELY EXPRESS MY ANGER.
Pay-by-race bake sale at UC Berkeley still on, student Republican group says
And just so that this isn't all RAEG:
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
After I realized the extent to which men work from a base of unacknowledged privilege, I understood that much of their oppressiveness was unconscious. Then I remembered the frequent charges from women of color that white women whom they encounter are oppressive. I began to understand why we are justly seen as oppressive, even when we don’t see ourselves that way. I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about its existence.
22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having coworkers on the job suspect that I got it because of race.
25. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
To redesign social systems we need first to acknowledge their colossal unseen dimensions. The silences and denials surrounding privilege are the key political tool here. They keep the thinking about equality or equity incomplete, protecting unearned advantage and conferred dominance by making these taboo subjects. Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.
Pay-by-race bake sale at UC Berkeley still on, student Republican group says
And just so that this isn't all RAEG:
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
After I realized the extent to which men work from a base of unacknowledged privilege, I understood that much of their oppressiveness was unconscious. Then I remembered the frequent charges from women of color that white women whom they encounter are oppressive. I began to understand why we are justly seen as oppressive, even when we don’t see ourselves that way. I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about its existence.
22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having coworkers on the job suspect that I got it because of race.
25. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
To redesign social systems we need first to acknowledge their colossal unseen dimensions. The silences and denials surrounding privilege are the key political tool here. They keep the thinking about equality or equity incomplete, protecting unearned advantage and conferred dominance by making these taboo subjects. Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.