The Heart of Whiteness

I read an article that a white professor from the University of Texas wrote and it was reveling because it speaks of race and how white people are really afraid of many things and for many a good reasons, and it seems proven rightly in the article. The first reason was that white people are afraid to admit to themselves that everything they have or have earned is not truly earned because all the while they send out for jobs, hire people from other countries and never really have to do things them selves. The second reason that white people are afraid is that there is a great fear of losing everything that we have. Everything monitary, social status, gov. ect. and along with that the other kinds of privilege many of us have living in the middle class and above in an imperialist country that dominates much of the rest of the world and eg. if things were to change than it would evaporate, the distribution of resources in the United States and in the world would change.

The third and best fear that I thought was great and really relates to some class discusions that have taken place recently is the fact that white people are afraid of being out numbered that one day in the far away future that things will greatly change. 'A world in which non-white people might someday gain the kind of power over whites that whites have long monopolized'. To me this was really just histerical because it's true, white people are afraid that one day they could possibly be outnumbered and than what? Someone non-white could treat them as they have to others for centuries and gotten away with it. And that's a startling thought because then they become the 'underdog' if you will and they don't know how to feel about that.

I really loved this article because some of the points that this article brought up were so true but you wouldn't nessecarilly think about these topics in the context that they were written unless you were in a classroom discussion but the fact that this is a published article and that the public can read it is awsome because it forces you to open your eyes to the reality of brutality and even bigger and scarier that one day it could and very well might not now, or tommorow but long from now come full circle and suck for the white people...

for anyone that would like to read this article it was written by: Robert Jensen

the article is called: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Priviledge

the website it can be found at is: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Erjensen/freelance/fearsofwhitepeople.htm