White Privilege

          To break from the typical blog prompts for a trial period, I really wanted to explore the global racial hierarchy in this post.  We learned in our lecture that Whites, are the only race who have never suffered from systemic racism.  We also learned that Whites are the only race to ever reach globally.  That means, Whites can go to China, India, Mexico, or Tajikistan and still never face the racism that a foreigner would face within the United States.
          Thus, in this global racial hierarchy, whites are always on the top.  To fill in the rest of the pyramid, intersectionality must do its job.  That is to say, white women are below white men, because in a  patriarchal society, women are valued less than men.  Below these white women are men of color (black, tan, yellow, etc. basically any race other than white).  These men are lower on the pyramid than women because they are not white at all.  In fact, as we have learned in previous readings, blacks, jews, and other men of color are stigmatized as feminine in nature.  Even further below these men are in fact the women of color.  What really makes the pyramid trickier is the the people of our societies who are really "other" (i.e. black lesbians). 
           What does this pyramid do?  It makes it easier for white men and women to get jobs as opposed to blacks.  It provides whites with a "privileged position" (www.whiteprivilege.com/definition/) in our society above everyone else.  Our society is unfair, especially to those of African descent who are seeminingly always closest to the bottom of the pyramid.  I am white, and I realize that this is not right.  Society needs to wake up!