Video Analyze

Precious Knowledge https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rVxLFksCC5N9VdWTq2dTvjXFevQkNTAav9yf-2B1QTc/edit?usp=sharing 

Teach Us All https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nMRmM8Rz2DHWHX6MI7DoOxH1jM7WgmWSiF71eOg8o-k/edit?usp=sharing 

Classroom Tour file:///var/folders/7v/pfsbpcbs1094m8v9g9bb3jsw0000gn/T/com.apple.Notes/galleryTempPDFFolder/0C9CF4AE-8BD1-4132-84BF-B78770A05F08/-62135769600/Video%20Analysis%20Template.pdf

Where White Privilege Comes From - Johnson - Argument

     "Everything is connected to and has the potential to affect everything else." Johnson explains that this privileged mindset was created thousands of years ago from our ancestors. Britain was a powerful nation long ago and they had an attitude that they were better than many people. An example being how they treated the Irish. They thought the Irish were savage people and that they were a whole separate species. This thought process made people think who groups of people were unlike them and nonhuman. As the British came to the Americas they brought this way of thinking and it led to forcing slavery. They knew they couldn't enslave anyone of British decent because they had the pride and same sense of rights and the Native could easily escape and blend into the Native population. So then black Africans were used as slaved because they could not hide among the population. The Constitution and Bill of Rights contradicted itself. It was written in a way that everyone had those rights but still the Africans did not. The term "colored" and "white" did not exist till the British came to America. They believed they were doing the colored a favor by making them slaves. Even in the 19th century is was thought it was better to be white and broke than be black and broke. They wanted the focus to still be about race. You may not be plangently racist but it's that these systems and ways of thinking have been carried down for generations and they are the easy way to live and the path of least resistance. We are taught this racist way of thinking without even being aware of it. 

Link- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09670889508455474?journalCode=cisr20 

Amazing Grace- Jonathan Kozol - Reflection

 
    In this chapter you get a sense of how terrible this neighborhood is and how the people there have become accustom to their environment. When my mom was a young child she lived in a terrible neighborhood and would tell me stories about how she would pick up glass tubes in the road and collect them because they were all different colors and she wanted to have all the colors of the rainbow. I came to find out that these glass tubes were really glass pipes that she would take home and keep in her yard. She went to a school that was half Spanish and half English so she wasn't learning much in school because of the time that would be wasted when she would have to sit through the Spanish half of class being only an English speaker. When she moved to another city she was held back because she didn't learn enough in the school she was in before and this district was too far ahead. This was my moms upbringing which was so different from mine. I lived in a safe neighborhood growing up surrounded by old people who retired to the beach town I lived in and other families of the students I went to school with. I could ride my bike and walk around my neighborhood at the age of 6 without a worry. I never heard of anyone being shot or stabbed or really much violence growing up. The beach town I lived in was quiet and not many people were even out in the off season and when it was warm the beach would fill up with people and tourist would come around to liven things up. My mom and me didn't have the same surrounds as kids and this makes up different in many ways but she got herself out of the bad neighborhood and to a place where I didn't have to go through what she did so you can only hope that some of those kids in the stories fin there way out too. 

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