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So privileged but yet so overlooked

October 4, 2022October 4, 2022 color of my skin, CP, Freeport, IL, Invisible, mistrusted, privilege, struggle, white male

CP,
Freeport, IL

As an white male I feel apart of a group of people that aren’t discriminated against but overlooked. I’ve never felt any disapproval or prejudice for being white, yet sometimes I feel like my opinion can be seen as overlooked or invalid because I haven’t faced many of the same struggles or had to overcome the same level of adversity as a person of color would have to. I also feel like some achievements made by white people may be overlooked because of a societal advantage given to them. With this being said I’ve always wondered what it’s been like to be a person of color and looked at differently or even mistrusted for that simple fact. I also feel a great level of empathy for others while noticing my privileged for the color of my skin.

I’m frustrated with my white peers.

September 5, 2016 1960's, civil rights, CP, dissonance, frustrated, Garland, hypocrisy, inherent oppression, Jim Crow, peers, swim, TX, white

CP,
Garland, TX.

I’m frustrated. Very much so. There is a lot of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance, especially within my race – Caucasian. I wish so much for everyone to open their eyes, minds, and hearts to the plight of others. To recognize that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s didn’t eradicate the inherent racism or the inherent oppression. As an example, it’s “common knowledge” that “blacks don’t know how to swim.” But they don’t think for a moment about how the members of the black community were BANNED from using swimming pools for a long time. Once they were allowed to share pools, the white folks up and left – they didn’t want black men sharing the same water as their white women. It’s frustrating that people who lived during that time, who experienced the hatred and racism of that time (including some who were down in the lower states where Jim Crow ruled), don’t see it. I feel like I’m walking up hill in sand…but I’m going to keep trudging along. Maybe I’ll make it to the peak one day.

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