White people, especially white men have always seen themselves as "saviors" bound by a moral intuition that it is there duty to go and save the "savage" races of the world. ... White people have always made it there priority to dominant people of color. ... When ever non-whites complain about something wrong in the system they are seen as divisive and traitors to the established norms of white people. ... Peggy McIntosh's essay outlines some the privileges of white people that people of color, namely Blacks have known for years. ... McIntosh talks of White peoples unwillingness to confron...

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Sandra Day O'Connor Supreme Court Justice White Female Ms. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Supreme Court Justice White Female Mr. ... In my opinion it is people like this, with lists like hers, that continue the racial and gender divide. ... Besides, who ever labeled music as black or white anyway? ... I do not know the percentage of black to white. ...

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Richard's writings in "Black Boy" are a collection of his alienation from white society and from his own people. ... "If you sell them you just helpng the white people kill you"(p131) Having black people sell papers that promote killing and hatred against them shows that white people do not care about black people just as long as they can get rid of them by any means.Richard was later on hired by a white family who offered to feed him breakfast and dinner." i cat eat this...the food is not even clean!" ... Richard was a victim of white peoples racist arrogance, just as he was also a vict...

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Robert Jensen's "The Heart of Whiteness" is an eye-opening book, delivering hard facts about the differences between the treatment of white people from that of African American individuals. ... To acknowledge white privilege is to acknowledge that it is unjust or unfair and in doing that, people realize that injustices must be fought and changed. ... I generally think of myself as anti-racist and a good person, but this book made me realize that my complacency is a symptom of white supremacy; Even though I grew up in a environment where I felt that white people are above me, I chose to de...

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(Lipsitz 2) In his book, "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics," George Lipsitz argues that it is in the best interest of white Americans to "invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources, power, and opportunity." ... His actions forced my first confrontations with the possessive investment in whiteness "a poisonous system of privilege that pits people against each other and prevents the creation of common ground. Exposing, analyzing, and eradicating this pathology is an obligation that we all share,...

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There was a white George Town law school student who reported that black students are not as qualified as white students. ... When people speak of racism they hold a greater meaning to the word then how it is perceived. Although, the dictionary definition does give some insight to the understanding of what people really do mean. ... Since the only logical explanation for non- white failure is white racism, white society stands accused of virtually every problem concerning crime, welfare, or drugs. Failure and misbehavior by non- whites is proof enough that white society is riddled with hat...

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Should White People Be Killed? ... White people have far too much of a stake in maintaining their supremacy. ... So I am forced to conclude that white people should, and have to be killed to accomplish liberation. ... From a psychological perspective, white people must certainly be exterminated. ... While I acknowledge that white people can engage in this kind of anti-racist surgery, I also recognize that the masses of white people will not. ...

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In the educational system you are molded to believe that white is right and everyone and everything not white is wrong. ... Differences between people, in regards to skin color, head shape, and body shape have been used to aid oppression by "white" folks. ... During the 19th century white Europeans had come to the point that money equaled power and in turn gave them the right to enslave people that were unlike them. ... In the European "helping" way these people were taken from their families so that white hands did not get blackened by the dirt. The differences that the Europeans saw in these...

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After the war, Kipling wrote his famous poem as a sort of message to the United States, urging America to take up the burden of its newly-acquired Philippines, but also warning the powerful nation not to expect a warm or receptive welcome from the Filipino people, if and when it chose to impose white values upon them. The White Man's Burden begins "Take up the White Man's burden – Send forth the best ye breed" (Kipling, 1899, 1-2). True to Euro-centric form, Kipling's first two lines scream of racism, as the poet asserts the genetic superiority of white people...

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Because African Americans knew they were subject of their own circumstance and that white society constructed and maintained that unjust circumstance, the black population feared the white race. ... White society attempted to suppress Bigger Thomas and anyone like him. ... The white folks got everything- (355). ... It seems more fantastic that all of the people around him are not. ... His crime of violence is as much the crime of the people around him, who stifled his soul and nourished the other, baser side of him that was the only way he had of self-expression. ...

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Stupid White Men by Michael Moore " Insert own title " I can't stop reffering stupid white men to people. ... Stupid white men is an excellent boook. ... He point's out a problem and then presents us, the reader with solution to that particular problem, an example racism, though you're not a racist you still adhere to it by just saying a racist joke, not meant to harm anyone or belitle them, but just have a laugh, but when you tell that joke althiough you're not a racist you hold open the rift between the white and the black man, though you personally believe that whi...

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This book was written because a white man wanted to find out why black people were being oppressed and discriminated against. ... White people were discriminating against blacks without cause or just. ... Griffin explains to him, he would know the reason why blacks are more notoriously known for sex than white is because whites left sexuality to be one of the few forms black people had of expressing themselves. Most of every encounter between the whites and blacks, with the exception of a few, think similarly about black people and that's another one of the reasons why this book ...

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The idea of pure white people and culture was one of the major socioculutral themes to blossom on the American continent. ... Americans so strongly accepted the myth of white superiority because it comforted those whites that might on occasion be smitten with moral doubts about slavery and the exploitation of indigenous peoples. ... This belief stated that they had a Manifest Destiny to take over these "lesser" people, if in fact they could be called people at all. ... The need for assurance in innate white superiority was so great that the people of that time would debunk any ideas that co...

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In addition, white beauty becomes equivalent with goodness and wholesomeness and even Pecola's father Cholly imagines God as "a nice old white man, with long white hair, flowing with beard, and little blues eyes"(pg 134). By toleranting the ideal of white beauty, blacks denounce themselves as its exact opposite. Given that the legend of white beauty is restricted from the outset and denies the worth of black beauty, blacks accordingly lock themselves into a self-destructive cycle in which their only triumph lies in their ability to encourage whiteness. ... And even more than that, if sh...

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Individual racism is based on labelling and teacher racism where pupils of different ethnicities other than white British are seen as being far from the ˜ideal pupil'. ... An ethnocentric curriculum is when the school emphasizes the values of only their own culture therefore emphasis is put on white-western music, literature, language, history, religion, etc An ethnocentric curriculum does not value black, Asian or any other cultures except their own and therefore a pupil of a different ethnicity will not have the same knowledge and understanding of white-British culture as much a...

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White versus black. ... White versus black appears most predominately throughout it, taking into consideration is the hatred from each side towards one another. ... Raeven Kelly, A Time To Kill (1996).Also when Tanya plays at a barbeque with Jake Brigantz's white daughter, rendering her completely oblivious to the racial issues surrounding her. ... At the beginning of the trial, as the judge walks, there is a slightly overbearing shot showing the whole audience to the case which has all the black people seated on one side of the room and the white people on the other to give the movie aud...

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So when the duke and the dauphin come to dupe such people at their low point for their own selfish wants, well of course the spectacle would make anybody cynical. The spectacle illustrates just how unsympathetic, immoral, dangerous, and utterly terrible people can be, so much so that it makes Huck overwhelmingly disappointed and embarrassed to the point of being "ashamed " of his own kind of people. Not coincidentally, too, the con men duping these people are white. ... The scam has surely confounded Huck's idea of white "goodness," creating a gray area between the black-white paradigm:...

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"Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim was setting in the kitchen door- (P.6) The word "nigger" itself offends the majority of people in this country. ... Twain didn't use this word because he is a white supremacist or a racist bigot, but because many people were in his lifetime. ... (P. 59) This event in the book, shows more than just an apology between two people. The fact that a white boy apologized to an older, black slave, was ground- breaking and very controversial for this time period. ... As a child, people are very vulnerable himself. ...

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One is in a room full of people and still not make human contact. ... For instance, understanding the history of white oppression of black people is essential to understand how we interact with each other today. ... I asked the men to stop and even though they did, during the next five minutes the two men and the two women complaining about "those people". ... That perhaps they had so much anger toward my whiteness. ... I could not find the proper words, so the women could understand "I am not like other white people". ...

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He chose to step into the white society, but was ostracized from living and working like a white man. ... This was, in my opinion, a robbery of a group of peoples' freedom. ... Been a half-caste, Jimmie was caught between growing up as a white or black. ... Like wage inequity, the lack of voting rights for the Aborigines separated the indigenous and non-indigenous people of Australia. ... It will take time, hopefully not in the too distant future, for Aboriginal people to have a substantial influence over the political decisions of Australia. ...

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What if an African American wanted to join a traditionally white fraternity or sorority or vise versa? ... Taking a look, even within the systemthe white fraternities belong to the InterFraternity Council, the white sororities to Panhellenic and the black Greeks to the National Panhellenic Council? ... This definitely reflects on the past, but how much longer will it be before people can truly say that we are all equal. ... and made comments such asWhy did she go through White Rush?? ... Using something so petty as skin color to separate people is only holding us back. ...

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Our world is packed full of stereotypes that are not true and yet people continue to believe in them. ... The article goes over how strictly white feminist movements were criticized and fought to include women of every race. ... She goes on to state, "critics argue that white feminists have been mostly concerned about their own particular forms of gender oppression, emerging from their own white, middle-class, heterosexual experiences." ... We are a multicultural society of both men and women and therefore, must take a stand while representing all categories of people. ... Nor will they h...

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He struggles to cope with the people that have caused him to pain and acted as a burden on his life. ... It is used to create the necessary skills used in a home to help and care for white people, while the black powerhouse is symbolizes the rage and discontent of African Americans from the poor treatment they are forced to endure. ... A black base is the essential ingredient, the foundation required for a glowing white luster, a color that so many white members of the plant are proud of, such as Mr. ... The dependence that the white people have for the black paint is a metaphor exposing h...

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White privilege and its social consequences represent one of the main reasons why equality is unattainable. ... White privilege is a system that amasses to whites' greater wealth and resources. ... Being white constitutes a powerful asset in the United States and globally. ... If, as he sees it, individuals are all afforded the same rights with regard to "pursuing happiness," then it is inevitable that certain people, due to their individual intellect and skill, will be more successful at "attaining happiness". ... By contrast, the concentration of people of color in a geographic are...

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In "Crackling Day," a young black boy in South Africa challenges three white youths and, in so doing, challenges the political system of the whole country. ... She later on discovers some truth about the land and it's people when she meets Chief Mshlanga. ... The narrator of "Crackling Day" demonstrates this theme by first standing up against the three white boys and then for the memories of his father. When faced with the racial discrimination, the narrator fights as a means to speak out against the white boys and to illustrate that his father is just as good as any other man, white or b...

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