Whiteness?
Don't let them catagorize, generalize, separate us by color
Crystal Marie Fleming. Stony Brook University. Click Picture for article on White Supremacy.
"It is displayed on the star-spangled banner, on our money, in our (neo)liberal ideology and hypercapitalism. It’s in the infiltration of white supremacists into every sphere of power (economics, politics, the military, the police, academia)."
David Web. Sirius XM Black radio personality accused of White Privilege by CNN legal analyst Areva Martin.
"David, by virtue of being a white male you have white privilege."
"Eva. I hate to break it to you... but I'm black.
Click on his picture for the story.
Sociologist Jean Halley on NPR. From "...Who's Considered White?"
"Whiteness is something that's a negative. It means not being of color. There's really almost no other definition for it. It's been something, you know, that's shifted. Different people have been included in whiteness over the years and ultimately the only thing that's the real component of whiteness is having privilege. It's racial privilege, so I don't think there is racial privilege without whiteness in the United States, and there's not whiteness without racial privilege."
COVID guidelines from the nea - The National Education Association:
"Ensure that school building reopening plans are inclusive and equitable for all educators and students by humanizing learning environments... and designing spaces that are situated in the experiences of communities of color, not just through White, cis-hetero, and able-bodied lenses."
From the Smithsonian African American Museum website:
The above was copied from the African American Museum website. This has since been removed because of complaints. This theory is based on the work of Judith Katz, 1990. It has been adopted by a number of government entities.
What are we to understand from this? Is it ALL Americans or Only White People who value self reliance, self discipline, family, hard work, delayed gratification? How damaging is this separation of values between black and white?
White Privilege Test.
White Privilege IQ Test.
Can you spot the faulty logic?
Click Picture to take the test.
- Question 1. What has changed since 1940? Are we more racist as a country than we were then? What other explanation might there be?
- This test lists disparities. It offers no explanation. It asks you to assume that whites are holding back blacks.
- First chart is of those born between 1943-1951. It is a snapshot of the past. This group would be 20-28 in 1963. The chart shows accumulated wealth for this narrow group.
- Wealth charts make a simplistic assumption. One line is black, one line is white. The difference must be due to race. Are there any other factors involved? What percent of the included white at the top 10%? Does this skew the stats, including poor whites in a much higher average income range?
- The source charts show disparate outcomes as a function of wealth not color. Note the income disparities are not as far apart as accumulated wealth. See
Wealth Charts.
- According to the Economist - The United States is home to the largest group of highly successful blacks in the world.
- Asians have a higher median income than whites, by 20%. Are Asians privileged?
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7% percent of black households earn over $200,000. 20% of white households earn over $200,000.
42% of Asians earn over $200,000.
- From 1991 to 2018 black college graduate degrees in the workforce, over 25 yrs old, have increased from 13% to 23%
Black Educational Achievement.
In 1992, 42 percent of Blacks or African Americans age 25 and older in the labor force had completed at least some college. By 2018, 63 percent of Blacks in the labor force had completed at least some college.
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