2016.07.29 10:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Q1jZ-LOT0
White Boy Privilege by 14 year old boy Royce Mann
http://columbiadailyherald.com/opinion/letters-editor/don-t-apologize-being-white-use-privilege-create-justice
Use privilege to create more just society
White Boy Privilege
Dear women, I am sorry.
Dear black people, I am sorry.
Dear Asian-American, dear native Americans, dear immigrants who come here
seeking a better life, I'm sorry.
Dear everyone who is'nt a middle or upper class white boy.
I have started life in the top of the ladder while you were born on the first rung.
I say now that I would change places with you in an instant, but if given the opprtunity,
would I?
Probably not.
Because to be honest that if ....... love being privileged and I'm not ready to give that away.
I love it because I can say if .....' and not one of you is attributing that to the fact that everyone
with my skin color has a dirty mouth.
I love it because I don't have to spend an hour every morning putting on makeup to meet
other people's standards.
I love it because I worry about what kind of food is on my plate instead of weather or not
there will be food on my plate.
To be honest I'm scared of what it would be like if I wasn't on the top of the rung if the tables
were turned and I didn't have my white boy privilege safety blanket to protect me.
If i lived a life lit by what I lack, not what I have, If I lived a life in which I failed, the world
would say, 'Told you so.'
I lived the life that you live.
When I was born I had a success story already written for me.
You...you were given a pen and no paper.
I've always felt that that's unfair but I've never dared to speak up because I've been too scared.
Well now I realize that there's enough blankie to be shared. Everyone should have the privilages I have.
In fact they should be rights instead.
Everyone's story should be written, so all they have to do is get it read.
Enough said.
No, not enough said.
It is embarrassing that we still live in the world in which we judge another peson's character by the size
of the paycheck, the color of their skin, or the type of chromosomes they have.
It is embarrassing that we tell our kids that it is not their personality, but instead those same chromosome
that get to dictate what color clothes they wear and how short they must cut ther hair.
But most of all, it is embarrassing that we deny this. That we claim to live in an equal country
and an equal world.
We say that women can vote. Well guess what: They can run a country, own a company, and throw
a nasty curve ball as well. We just don't give them the chnace to.
I know it was'nt us 8th grade white boys who created this system, but we profit from it everyday.
We didn't notice this privileges though, because they don't come in the form of things we
gain, but rather the lack of injustices that we endure.
Because of gender, I can watch any sports on TV, and feel like that could be me one day.
Because of my race Ican eat at a fancy restraunt without wait staff expecting me to steal the
silverware.
Thanks to my parents' salary I go to a school that brings my dreams closer instead of pushing
them away.
Dear white boys: I'm not sorry.
I don't care if you think the feminists are taking over the world, that the Black Lives Matter
movement has gotten a little too strong, because that's bulls....
I get that change can be scary, but equality shouldn't be.
Hey white boys: It's time to act like a woman. To be strong and make a difference. It's time to
let go of that fear.
It's time to take that ladder and turn into a bridge.
"Performed at a slam poetry competition in May at The Paideia School in Atlanta,
Royce Mann's winning poem offers a reflection on the privilege he feels he has been
automatically awarded as a result of his being white and male."
July 14, CNN
"우리 며누리는 미국 애 야." 라고 재미 교포 들이 말 할 때는 "백인"을 의미 한다.
우리들이 "미국 사람" 하면 의래 백인으로 인식 한다. 그러나 미국 사람중에
백인은 61% 에 불과 하다. 나머지는 흑인, 히스패닉, 아시안 그리고 인디안 등
여러 인종이 섞여 사는 곳이 미국이다.
Royce Mann 처럼 도시의 백인 중류 이상의 가정에서 태어난 백인은 좋은 학교
에서 공부 하고 대학 교육을 받아 훌륭한 직장을 얻기가 다른 인종 보다 쉽고
거의 신분이 보장 된다. 따라서 이들은 자기들이 Mann 처럼 특권층이라고
생각할수도 있다.
그러나 rust belt 의 백인 들은 오히려 자기들이 불이익을 당하고 있다고 생각하고
있다. 중부의 자동차 공장, 제철 공장 등에서 일했던 베이비 붐어 들은 교외의
좋은 집에서 별어려움 없이 살았다. 대학 교육은 별로 필요 없는 것이었다.
그러는 동안에 외 제차, 철강수입 등으로 자기들이평생 다니던 공장이 문을 닫고
많은 공장 들이 중국, 멕시코 등의 저임금을 찿아서 옮겨 갔다. 배이비 붐어 들의
자손들은 자기 부모 처럼 고등학교를 졸업 하고 직장을 찿으나, 탐탁스러운
직장이 없다. 결과 적으로 그들의 생각은 외국과의 불공정 한 무역과 외국, 특히
중국의 저 임금이 자기들의 직장을 빼았아 갖다고 생각한다.
그러나 지난 10-15 년동안 하이 테크를 이용한 생산 성의 증가와 중국의 임금 상승
으로 미국 내의 제조 업이 경쟁력이 생겨서 많은 공장들이 국내로 들어 왔다.
그러나 옛날에 수 백명이 필요 하던 공장이 요지음엔 수 십명이 면 족 하게 되었다.
그리고 일꾼 들에게 요구 하는 기술의 정도도 높아 졌다.
일본, 한국, 독일 등의 자동차 회사들이 미국 내에 많은 조립 공장을 운영 하고 있다.
이 또한 배이비 붐어 자손들에게 기회 였을 것이다.
아무 특별한 직업 교육 없이 그저 고등학교 졸업 학력으로 자기 부모가 가졌던
직장을 얻을 수 없는 처지인 이들은 트럼프의 감언 이설에 속아 그의 지지 세력이
된 것이다.
고도의 기술을 요 하는 높은 보수를 주는 직장이 외국인에게 주어 지는 것을 보고
이민자들이 자기 내 직장을 빼았아 간다고 생각 한다.
흑인에 비하면 백인은 양반이다.
"People with a black sounding name have to send 50% more job applications than people
with white sounding names just to get a call back."
" a black man is three times more likely to be searched at a traffic stop and six times more likely
to go to jail than a white man."
" black people serve up to 20% more time in prison than white people for the same crime."
이렇게 잘 대우 받는 백인들은 많은 사람들이 "cowboy"식의 문화에 젖어 있다.
학교에서 공부 잘해서 일류 대학에 가는 사람들을 "nerd"라고 놀리고 무시한다.
그리고 자기 내들이 공부 않하는 것을 당연 시 한다.
Royce Mann 과 같은 사람들이 이들을 일 깨워 주어야 할 것 같다. 현재와 미래는
좋든 싫든 간에 "nerd"의 세상이다. 아는 것이 힘이라고 했다. 이 젠 공부 않하면
직장이 없다.
2016.07.29 11:29
2016.07.30 01:31
We have elected African-American as president of USA.
Now, one of major party nominated a woman as presidential candidate and odds to become the first woman president of USA is good. Since women gained the right to vote 96 years ago, women's contribution to the society has been widened and their rights improved politically, socially and economically.
We saw several incidences that black people resisted against white policemen's abuses on them. I think black people became outspoken because Obama being president and his policies on monority.
Yet, 14 year old, 8th grader, acknowledges that he is better off because he was born "white" and "boy".
Surprisingly, he knows he will be ahead because his parents have well paying job. Money provides good education.
Good education increases chance of landing a good job.
Discrimination leads to divisive society and social unrest. Injustice make the people unhappy.
Most of all, it narrows talent pool. All poor people are not stupid. Not all rich people are smart.
Given equal opportunity of education to the poor as much as the rich,
we will find talents in them and the society as a whole will be better off.
Royce says, "I get that change can be scary, but equality shouldn't be. ...... It's the time to take that ladder and turn into
bridge.
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"흑인에 비하면 백인은 양반이다."...
No, not necessarily !! We just think that way.
I've travelled throught the south and southeastern America when I was living in Kentucky.
In rural counties, the rednecks (whites) were not any better than the black in their intelligence and living standards.
Most of us do not know that there are so many poor, ignorant, and miserable rednecks in America.
No wonder Donald Trump got such a good supports from them.