Blindness...

Chapter 11

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"America's U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson complained not long ago that in the United Nations 'a skin game' being played. He was right. He was facing reality. A 'skin game' is being played. ...Because who in the world's history ever has played a worse 'skin game' than the white man?" (Haley 182).

This quote goes back to what the class was discussing a week ago about how whites are more privileged than other races. In Malcolm X, when Red China started their anti-white campaign and closed their doors to the Western white world, America's U.N. Ambassador, Adlai Stevenson, complained that the Chinese were playing a "skin game" (Haley 181-182). Whites have the satisfaction [or privilege one might say] of not having to care about the racism that goes on around them because it is not specifically directed towards them. Whites are threatened when racial remarks or even something as "hate-white" campaigns are sprung against them. However, whites are blind to the fact that these are the feelings that are spread among others of other races such as black people. Whites are able to see the hate that is pushed their way but they are blind when it comes to realizing their own mistakes in judging other people from different races because of their skin color or ethnicity.

This is the list of privileges that we read over in class a couple of weeks ago. If you go onto the next website though, it highlights some other aspects as well...

This is a political blog but it really does highlight the aspects of the privileges white people have that blacks would be accused of for being irresponsible and stupid. (Read the first four or so paragraphs. It is a really an interesting way to look at what we had discussed in class).