Talking Point #1

McIntosh, "White Privilege"

Muwakkil, "Data Show Racial Bias Persists In America"

• Muwakkil's Argument is that even though we consider ourselves to be over racism, recent studies have shown that we are not by having surveys filled out anonymously and sending in fake resumes to open jobs and getting results back.

• McIntosh's argument is how we percieve racism. everyone views is as seeing it as a minority disadvantage but no one sees it as a white advantage.

McIntosh

1. Asa white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

I think that this quote was very important to the article because it basicallu sumarized the entire article into one nice sentence basically in the very beginning of the article.

2. one question for me and others like me is whether we will be like them, or whether we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance, and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

Thos quote is important because it shows that the author wants to make a point to try and change the way that we are instead of just ignoring the fact that this problem exists.

3. Many, perhaps most, of our white students in the United States think that racism doesn't affect them because they are not people of color; they do not see "whiteness" as a racial identity.

This quote is important because it is common knowledge that this really happens. it is not taught in classrooms and such but kinda of in the general population. i think that if we slowly began to change this, this world would become a better place and we wouldnt have to deal with the reoccuring issue of race.

I thought that this article was very important because it related alot to another bias that we have in todays world that alot more people can relate to and that was the male dominance over women. I think that the racial issue in this world is still here, obviously not as prominent as it was back in the 50s and 60s, but it is still there. I think once everyone gets over the fact that not everyone is going to believe in the same thing and have the same skin color then this world will become a much better place

Muwakkil

1. 
   "For us, the most surprising and disheartening result is seeing that applicants with African-American names were not rewarded for having better resumes," Bertrand said.

I thought that this quote was very intriguing. it suprised me the most throughout the entire article and i still think about it because i have never heard of this happening.

2.
The study found that applicants with white-sounding names were 50 percent more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with black-sounding ones.

Now i feel that these studies are really bringing out the racism in the world that has been hiding for so long and is starting to still rear its ugly head from time to time. We, as a society, most definitly need to change this in order to become a better society.

3.
blacks constitute about 13 percent of America's drugusers, but makeup 58 percent of those sent to prison for drug posession.

I feel that this quote was relevant because i just got done explaining how we need to change society for the better and now a few bad apples come along adn ruin the whole pot for the rest of society.

I think that this article was very interesting and i enjoyed reading it. the quotes helped me to understand the entire articles better and helped me see racism from a better light. I also liked the fact that it showed that racism is backed with scientific fact with the surveys and experiments and such and not just going off of everyones assumption that racism is still there adn everyone just try and ignore it.