New York Times
November 1st, 2016
"Whiteness, in this context, is more than just skin color. You could define it as membership in the “ethno-national majority,” but that’s a mouthful. What it really means is the privilege of not being defined as “other.”"
"Whiteness means being part of the group whose appearance, traditions, religion and even food are the default norm. It’s being a person who, by unspoken rules, was long entitled as part of “us” instead of “them.”"
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I think that the message behind these two quotes is extremely powerful. These quotes, and the article that they come from, shine a light onto the fact that we have grouped so many different cultures under one blanket of "white" just based on skin color, and have excluded people who don't fit that category into "other". This is such a derogatory term, and I believe that the article really speaks about white privilege and how dangerous and destructive that is towards racial equality.
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