The Origins of 'Privilege' The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history.
In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel superior to poor blacks; during the civil-rights era, activists talked about “white-skin privilege.” Evidence Of Racial, Gender Biases Found In Faculty Mentoring. Research found faculty in academic departments linked to more lucrative professions are more likely to discriminate against women and minorities than faculty in fields linked to less lucrative jobs.
Racism is far more than old white men using the N-word. You Don’t Have To Apologize For Being White — Culture Club. White Privilege Doesn't Mean What You Think it Means 'Because...' - NUS Black Students' Campaign. The Great Ukip Racism Debate - Debunking the Six Main Myths. The N-word: Jeremy Clarkson has finally urinated on the live rail of racism. I was going to leave this Jeremy Clarkson thing alone.
The Numbers in Black And White: Ethnic Disparities In The Policing And Prosecution Of Drug Offences In England And Wales. Stop and search has increased steadily since 2001/2 from less than 750,000 to a peak of almost 1.3 million in 2010/11, more than 1.2 million of which were carried out under PACE and associated legislation.
Despite a slight decline, there were still more than one million stop searches carried out in 2011/12. Half or more of these searches are for drugs. This means that every 58 seconds someone in England and Wales is stopped and searched by the police for drugs. Share this image In 2009/10 the overall search rate for drugs across the population as a whole was 10 searches per 1000 people. 18 Things White People Seem To Not Understand (Because, White Privilege) I don’t wake up every morning with the intention of pissing you off, I swear, and whether or not you believe it, I’m here to help you.
I want you to recognize that on a daily basis, you hold a set of advantages and immunities that are a direct result of the oppression of people of colour. That doesn’t sound nice, does it? Makes you squirm in your chair a bit and maybe feel a little uncomfortable, right? But here’s the thing – I’m not here to make you feel comfortable, that’s not my job. Repressed Brits, evil Mexicans, Arab villains: why are Hollywood's animated movies full of racist stereotypes? These are supposed to be progressive times for movies and people of colour.
Django Unchained was a hit action movie about slavery. A black director just won the best picture Oscar for another one (Steve McQueen for 12 Years A Slave), and a Mexican won best director (Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity). What Would You Do? Bike Theft (White Guy, Black Guy, Pretty Girl) 21 Things You Can't Do While Black. iStock Update: On October 17, 2014, Michael Dunn was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of Jordan Davis.
Update: On February 15, 2014, the judge in the murder trial of Michael Dunn declared a mistrial on the first-degree murder count after the jury could not come to a decision. The jury reached verdicts for the other charges Dunn faced, and he was found guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of throwing a deadly missile. If the UK were an African Country: Was Great Britain a Mistake. With apologies to Slate's If It Happened There series.
The United Kingdom’s (UK) capital, London, is a city of stark contrasts, where wealthy expatriates and a few home grown billionaires, rub shoulders with the numerous poor, who flock from across the country to make their fortune in the metropolis. However, despite the riots that regularly tear across this sprawling city, there is little sign of ethnic unrest, deep in the heartlands of the English peoples. The same cannot be said hundreds of miles to the north, where a growing political movement is demanding independence for the Scottish tribe. This would be the first time that borders have changed in Western Europe for half a century, and would represent a severe blow to the southern tribes, who depend on the mineral wealth of the Scottish homeland. The Scottish have long had a strong presence in this island nation. There’s No Greater Challenge To White Privilege Than The Word Nigger – ThisIsYourConscience.com. Casual Racism is Not My Spirit Animal.
On this past Monday’s Today show, during a bizarre exchange in which Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer bickered over a pair of women’s drawers, Lauer said to Vieira, “Don’t be an Indian giver.”
An “Indian giver,” for those who didn’t grow up in the US or who were homeschooled or otherwise insulated from a lot of the stupid shit kids say to each other, is a person who gives you something as a gift and then takes it back. It’s kind of like being a liar, only with property involved. The idea of an “Indian gift” was in use as early as 1765, and the specific term “Indian giver” was formally documented in Bartlett’s 1860 “Dictionary of Americanisms.” These days, the origins of the concept are generally explained by a gap in cultural understanding between Native American peoples and the white Europeans (whom we could rightly call invaders or conquerors, given how things turned out) suddenly appearing on American shores. A travel guide to Bongo Bongo land. The decision to travel to Bongo Bongo land needs to be considered with the utmost care.
A vast, jungle-like area, it is populated with one, immense Bongo tribe, a people of strange contradictions that can leave the visitor feeling confused. On the one hand, these dark-skinned natives are primitive people, prone to the backwardness and cannibalism so well reported by our rich British heritage of explorer literature. But despite their tendency to walk around naked, their lack of any intelligible language or literature and their bizarre food habits, they have an unpredictable tendency to drive Ferraris through the rainforest, creating havoc for the unsuspecting explorer. This surprising habit has arisen over the years due to a surplus in British pounds in the Bongo economy, sent there by hard-working British rugby players who intended the money as foreign aid to alleviate suffering among small children.
Understanding White Privilege and Our Mental Colonisation. For the past two months, I have been hitting twitter hard with white privilege. And unsurprisingly, white twitter followers (and non followers) are filling my mentions with the likes of ‘you racist’, ‘go back to your country’. Now most who follow me on twitter, don’t really know my origin, I don’t look like a white European, my name isn’t that common, you’d only guess if you were from the same country, but due to the nature of my tweets (pro Palestine) I’m regarded as Arab or at least some ‘rag head sand nigger Muslim’.
I am Muslim that’s for sure, but everything else is questionable. Tim Wise The Pathology of White Privilege. This is how racism takes root. By now surely everyone knows the case of the eight men convicted of picking vulnerable underage girls off the streets, then plying them with drink and drugs before having sex with them. A shocking story. But maybe you haven't heard. Because these sex assaults did not take place in Rochdale, where a similar story led the news for days in May, but in Derby earlier this month.
Can non-Europeans think? - Opinion.