Interesting article.
At first I thought it was a lot of hooey. Then I thought the sandwich thing was kind of cool: ’‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.” That’s really kind of cool…kids talking about diversity among and with their peers. But that doesn’t jive with “intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives”
I didn’t read another word past, “When white people do it, it is not a problem, but if it’s for kids of color, then it’s a problem?” says Gutierrez, 40, an El Paso, Texas, native whose parents were Mexican immigrants. “Break it down for me. That’s your white privilege, and your whiteness.””
“White privilege” and “whiteness” are exactly why minorities are able to have exclusive groups that whites are not. Minorities band together to counter the fact that whites have an advantage because they are the majority. Around here we call her kind of talk “Telling it how it tells best.” Often times confused with lying.