McIntosh: White Privilege

While reading this piece I really realized that I had been taught that my life was normal. Being a white male, I think back to when I was younger and I was ignoring the idea of privilege without even realizing it.

When talking about white privilege in this article by McIntosh, it also compares to another article called "On Racism and White Privilege". In this article it compares to McIntosh's article because there are a lot of similar facts about white privilege. Also in this second article, the author makes a couple of lists like McIntosh about the perks, advantages, and the world view of white power. These lists are very interesting because they have some really big things such as money having white people on it, and thats a big white privilege. But they also have smaller things like color of band aids as a sign of white privilege.

Now in both these articles the authors have similar thoughts and both agree that white people grow up and usually are taught to ignore white privilege.

Another thing that both articles point out that I found interesting was how little things like band aids and hair products are favored to the white community. I find it interesting because as they point out, band aids are usually one color and it is a color that matches the "white peoples" skin. Also a lot of hotels and grocery stores give out or sell hair products that favor a more white persons hair styles. These little things are crazy to think about because until I read this article I would have never realized that these things favored white people.