After reading chapter Nine and the McIntosh piece, I completely agree with Peggy McIntosh’s argument especially, when she said whites think of their lives as morally neutral and ideal. White people, especially white men have always seen themselves as “saviors” bound by a moral intuition that it is there duty to go and save the “savage” races of the world. It is this kind of thinking that allowed for colonialism, imperialism and all the other ism’s that has made life hell for black and brown people around the world. This is especially evident now with this imposing war in Iraqi were Neo Conservative are advocating for global “Americanism” which namely reads: Our white way is better than savages of the earth-they the savages need to be more like us and we the white man should teach them to be like us. This kind of thinking as been going for years starting with the Europeans and there damaging imperialism of every corner of the world. The Europeans
While neither Peggy McIntosh’s essay or Chapter Nine go into the depths as to why whites feel the need to dominant, they still made a case for white privilege in society. There is no denying that whites are the dominant group in America, it is there ideals, principals, needs that are much more fostered by the American social institution; while the needs and ideals of the sub-groups are ignored or treated as non important. When ever non-whites complain about something wrong in the system they are seen as divisive and traitors to the established norms of white people. For examples many conservatives whites consider the word diversity to be a code word for reverse racism as oppose to diverse groups coming together to fight institutions of racism. Peggy McIntosh’s essay outlines some the privileges of white people that people of color, namely Blacks have known for years. We [Black people] have known that it is easier for whites to get housing and we have known that image of white
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