Posted in My Life, Uncategorized, tagged "good whites", African American English, autobiography, Ebonics, education, lynching, sharecropping, Tim Wise on July 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A CursoryEducational Biography
I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Besides visiting other places and vacationing, I’ve lived in Portland all of my life. My parents are both from Texarkana, Arkansas. They grew up in the same neighborhood and were high school sweethearts. Unfortunately for them and for me as a result, they were [...]
Posted in Racism, Whiteness, and White Privilege, tagged "good whites", allies, whiteness on June 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This response I had to copy from a very informed and straight forward guy that was in my White Studies class I took a few terms ago. I couldn’t have given a better response to this question myself; in fact, I couldn’t get off the floor from laughing so hard when I read it. The [...]
Posted in Racism, Whiteness, and White Privilege, tagged "good whites", allies, privilege, whiteness on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Allies
Survey by Matthew Ross
1) Name five things that you can do with your privilege that would resemble an ally?
2) What does ally behavior look like?
3) Is being an ally just another way for Whites to been seen as “good Whites”? Explain you reasoning.
4) Does being constituted an ally represent the idea that you totally “get [...]
