Talking Points #1 : MacIntosh

1. "White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks."
• I think that this quote is very true. Its trying to say that white privilege comes along with all the greatest necessities. however what I don't agree with is that. I do feel as though the whites, especially men, think that they have the power to overrule anything.
2. "Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, andaverage, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work which will allow“them“ to be more like “us.”
• What stuck my mind the most when I first read this was the high level of gangs that we have in this state, let alone this country. I also thought about the school, and how there are different cliques for different types of people. I hate when I hear the race card being pulled because of something stupid. I feel as though this quotes does pertain a lot to children in school because although segregation is over, it's still around,
3. "It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male
   advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States"
• Shortly before the Presidential Elections of 2008, when President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton were running up against each other, society was already pointing out the flaws in the future president at the time. The main flaws were that Clinton was a woman, and Obama was of color. When Obama won the election, many people swore that he was going to be assassinated very shortly after he was sworn in as the nation's new president. This quote made me think about all the prejudge that's out there in the real world , and how "the future of tomorrow" isn't going to be able to fix this corruption if the people they're looking up to keep judging.