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Poor White Kid, Wheres My Privilege?

April 6, 2017 CA, CBU HIS311, Chris, MI, poor, poor white, privilege, redlands, rural, single mother, welfare, white privilege

Chris,
Redlands, CA.

Growing up on welfare, to a single mother in rural Michigan, I learned not to expect help from anyone. However, my whole life I have heard of this privilege that we all are given given because we are white. While I’ve never been in another persons footsteps, life hasn’t been very easy, and I have earned everything I have gotten. While there are definitely some racist people in this world, not always does it work in the white mans favor. Racism goes many ways, and I should not have to feel apologetic for being born white. What I have I have earned and fought for, NOTHING was given to me out of privilege.
CBU HIS311

This Is Why Blacks Aren’t Respected

June 10, 2016 Black, Black American, clothing, culture, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Julian D., Las Cruces, MLK, NM, respect, role model, stereotype, thug, welfare

Julian D.,
Las Cruces, NM.

Thug and Welfare culture is NOT what your ancestors and forefathers fought and died for! The Rev. M.L. King, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, etc. are all turning over in their graves over how much Black America has degenerated. Time to get it together, men and women. Don’t let their efforts become a total waste.

Welfare: Black faces televised White missing

March 1, 2016March 1, 2016 black face, KSTP.com, Mary Lou Henneman, missing, MN, St. Paul, stereotype, television, welfare, white

Mary Lou Henneman
St. Paul, MN

Black faces continue to be portrayed as the face of Welfare for televised commentaries and Black voices for radio broadcasts about the welfare system. Although, according to the KSTP.com website where I live, “Forty percent of MFIP-eligible caregivers are white, 37 percent are black, 9 percent are American Indian, 6 percent are Asian (including Pacific Islanders), 6 percent are Hispanic (an ethnic category that is coded as a race in keeping with U.S. Census Bureau practice) and 2 percent report multiple racial/ethnic backgrounds,” seldom do you see White faces or hear as many other ethnic voices represented on media broadcasts about welfare. It reminds me of the reporting that was done on the looting of stores during Katrina: White reporters claiming they witnessed Black persons looting a flooded store, while others reported white people as gathering supplies for their families. The media needs to do everything they can to make conscious the ‘unconscious biases’ that exists within them (and all of us) or to at least acknowledge publicly that they are aware that they may be biased about something they are reporting.

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