Ndamukong Suh. Nebraska DT elite prospect for the NFL. I want the Rams to select him with the first pick. But what to do with the QB problem? We can't live with Bulger for another year! You can't pass up a once in a decade player like this...
Sociology has taken me on quite the ride lately... Discussing issues like race and gender. I loved this quote...
"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring
dominance on my group" said Peggy McIntosh from her article White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.
Peggy argues that we are born with an unearned favor that we are taught to be oblivious to.
For example, as a person of white skin....
"I can be pretty sure that my children's teachers and employers will tolerate them if they fit school and
workplace norms; my chief worries about them do not concern others' attitudes toward their race."
"I can talk with my mouth full and not have people put this down to my color."
"If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether
it had racial overtones."
Interesting.... More thoughts to come.
4 comments:
I totally read that article for my Sociology class last semester!
Hey...I've never met you, but I got to your blog by reading someone else's. I love Peggy McIntosh! The college I went to hosted the White Privilege Conference for three years while I was there. One year, I actually got to sit down and talk to her. She's really quite a radical for her time...but the kind of radical that was needed...is needed in order to open eyes to systemic racism. It's there. And it's uncomfortable to talk about or to pursue justice of...but beauty and reconciliation come out of the uncomfortable.
Amanda...
Thanks for reading! Does Peggy have any good books you would recommend (or even articles)?
And I agree 100 percent. Being radical about good and true causes could have a positive or negative effects. A radical person that calls out the crap that we or society does in an act of construction not always deconstruction.
I'm actually not super familiar with a lot of her writings. I know that "knapsack" is actually a shorter version of an article on both white privilege and male privilege. I can recommend several books and some articles on white privilege/racism, but most of them would be from a Biblical perspective. On the subject of radicals...I've been taken recently by the "ordinary radicals" that we find just living in and among us.
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