DOES WHITE PRIVILEGE EQUAL BLACK OPPRESSION

Intersectionality

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noun. the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively)

Oppression 

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  unjust or cruel exercise of authority

Intersectional politics uses the emotionally laden terms of privilege and oppression wrongly. The terms advantages and disadvantage would be more accurate. Most of these are personal feelings. Feelings are personal you own them. None of these "white privileges equal black oppression".

Read through the list. Do you see any unjust or cruel exercise of authority?

If so which ones?

List of White Privilege Black Oppression

1. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time. (She lives in a town 87% white)

2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area that I can afford and in which I would want to live. (Wellesley has a population of 27,000) 3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me. ( do you think Asian have that problem or is it Asian privilege?) 4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed. (do you think Asian have that problem or is it Asian privilege?)

5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.do

6. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. (It is predominately and founded is a white European culture) 7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.(see 5) 8. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.( In a very liberal college town but why the assumption a black academic couldn't. Is assumption of racism? Why do you make that conclusion? This Weselly) 9. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone who can deal with my hair.( if you lived in a black town the same would be true?) 10. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability. (You mean another professor that spoke as you do and behave as you do and dress like you do would have that problem?) 11. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them. (In Wesseley Massachusettes} 12. I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes, or not answer letters without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race. 13. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my ra 14. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race. 15. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group. 16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color, who constitute the world’s majority, without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion. 17. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider 18. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge” I will be facing a person of my race. 19. If a traffic cop pulls me over, or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race. 20. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race. 21. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in rather than isolated, out of place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared. 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. 23. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen. 24. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help my race will not work against me. 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. 26. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color that more or less match my skin