post reading #4

The exercise we did on Wednesday morning was very interesting because it made me recognize how fortunate I am, by letting me now the advantages I have, moreover by letting me know the disadvantages I have because of my skin color. One of he privileges I realized I had was thanks to my parents for getting an education when they were younger, for instance having more than fifty books in the house, my mom have a profession as a marriage and family counselor, and us always having food in the house. The disadvantages I had I realized were not in my control, such as people judging my capabilities based on my skin color, background, and disabilities. I also thought how I remembered my disadvantages more than my advantages till they came to my attention. I remember when I was in eighth grade and I was having a hard time focusing because I cannot focus for a very long time, and my teacher told me basically that I was not gonna go to college and basically anywhere. The experience that I got from this and my eighth grade teacher though is that people are ignorant, and one has to learn to ignore them and nobody really knows your full potential because they cannot base it of your skin color, gender, sexual orientation, or your where you came from.

Advantages and disadvantages though can have various types of meaning, for instance now I am going to discuss the structural privileges that I possessed and the ones that I did not. The structural privileges I felt like I possessed were that I lived in a good neighborhood, I attended private schools, and got my first job as a lifeguard because I knew the people that were hiring; all these advantages helped me progress farther in my life, when things could have been completely different. The disadvantages I received was that because my skin color and where I went to school they thought less of me because I was not white. Another example is that most of my family still lived in low income areas and that just because I had all these advantages my family did not and was looked down on by society.

Reverse racism is a very complicated subject because one can never really reverse racism unless it never happened in the first place. Black girl dangerous reverse racism I feel is also wrong because she is just listing everything the white people did we would be doing back to them and the only difference is if we did it the racism would be reverse and the white people would not be at any advantages and the people of color would. I agree with the second reading because she is also saying that we can never truly reverse racism because the only way one can truly reverse it is if one fought racism with racism and if one does that no one is really winning. Racism is a very tricky subject because in reality it will always exist and someone will always think there better then someone else with no actual proof.

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