Essays on White Privilege

I have lived a sheltered life. Not in the sense that I don’t know about the bad in the world or have abstained from any teenage temptations, but in the fact that I have never realized how easy my family had it, at least not...

We have all heard expressions such as “first impressions are important” and “we are judged (even by ourselves) by our appearances. ” Such judgements lead to the development of values which develop not only on the reflections we see in the mirror but also in...

Meritocracy is a concept very alive within American society. It is a concept where a person’s will and their choices are the main reason for their success or lack thereof. Within this article Dr. Peggy Mcintosh makes a correlation between white privilege and male privilege...

Although I used to believe that white privilege for now don’t work and all people in the same plank. All people are good . And no matter your gender or skin color you can be bullied . But if you just walk in the mall...

American history is full of examples of extreme racism. Many times discrimination happens for no reason other than the color of a person’s skin. An example of this obvious hatred is Emmett Till’s murder that has shed light on the horrors of segregation and racism...

The world has had a long history of discrimination. But since the 1960s America has been moving to a more equal society. We had passed laws to help bring equal opportunities to all Americans, but are these laws still relevant? This issue is covered by...

Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden” clearly shows that the role of white men around the world is based on eurocentric values and that any racial counterparts should abide to white men and their acts of kindness around the world. In the poem, Kipling...

White supremacy, what do we mean when we talk about white supremacy well according to The Merriam-Webster dictionary “a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white person should have control over people of other races.” In...

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group,” this is one of Peggy McIntosh famous quotes in this article. There the main point of view that McIntosh talks about in her is...

The emergence of Donald Jr. Trump as the republican party’s presidential candidate in the 2016 American presidential election brought forth the re-birth of a new vine of the supporters as a result of its subtle racial undertones which unconsciously accommodated white supremacy. The supremacists were...