Students were required to address ‘whiteness’ and describe what the term ‘white’ means, as well as explain how they ‘navigate race’ in their daily lives.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    Not that having privilege personally is a bad thing either. It’s just opening you up to it, being aware of it. It also doesn’t diminish other negative things you went through.

    I’m a white male. I probably have gotten jobs that were helped by that fact. I also grew up dirt poor only affording ramen and rice. One does not cancel the other out, it just adds to who I am.

    However now being aware of it I want to move into a position where I can help change things, where I can help hire people not based on their skin color or sex

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      I also grew up dirt poor only affording ramen and rice.

      If nothing else, we can acknowledge that choosing to eat Ramen and rice now is not the outcome for a lot of people who tried just as hard as we did to move up the economic ladder. They are often still stuck in the same position because of things outside their control.

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        tried just as hard as we did to move up the economic ladder

        Topple the ladder.

        The ladder is bad, no matter where you are on it, or how hard you try to move up.