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The semester is over and you`re flying home for the holidays. Near the end of the flight, you begin talking to the white, middle aged woman sitting next to you. She asked what you`re studying at GWU and you tell her about the classes you have taken. When you mention the Race and Minority Relations class she gets animated. She is `fed up` with complaints about racism in the society. `We have a black President; she asserts. `What better evidence is there that we are now in a post-racial society? People have equal opportunity, and if they don`t succeed, it`s their own fault. We need to stop obsessing about our history and about isolated cases of racism and pay attention to the deficit and how to cut all this spending for people who are just too lazy to succeed`. You start to answer, but just then the flight attendances that the plane is preparing to land. `I`d like to continue this conversation`, you tell the woman. `Would you mind if I wrote you letter during the holidays explaining my views on this?` She gives you her address and says she`d be happy to receive your letter.

Assignment:

Thinking about our class lectures/discussions, the required reading, the videos we saw, and the newspaper articles you`ve read, write a letter to this woman that clearly, persuasively and specifically:

A. Describes the concepts of white privilege and the self-perpetuating cycle of negative stereotyping, explaining how they are legacies of our history of racial oppression, and illustrates how they still affect us today.

White privilege refers to benefits and incentives that white people enjoy simply because of their skin color. Because white people have been in control of government, business, religion and other areas of society for several hundred years now it makes sense that they have organized these areas to best suit them. By administrating these organizations in ways that are beneficial to whites they are purposefully or perhaps unwittingly making it very difficult for minorities to succeed in these organizations.

It should be understood that white privilege does not automatically mean that there is hatred toward specific minorities or even hatred of a minority group in general. It is very possible that white privilege is something that white people do not even consciously think about. They just assume that things have always been this way and don`t see the system as racist, rather it is normal to them.

I would encourage the lady from the plane to consider the following series of questions and ask herself if she can identify with them or not. All of these questions illustrate the principle of white privilege.