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