Mcintosh's Poem

Born in Ontario in 1971 to an Anishinaabe mother and a Scottish father, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a member of Alderville First Nation and is of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry. Although she has written three books, her most famous one is a collection of short stories called Islands of Decolonial Love. Simpson also works for the The Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research at Athabasca University in Canada. She is a poet, an academic, and activist, and a spoken word artist, and she won the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award for her non-fiction works in 2014. She also was awarded the Briarpatch Magazine’s Writing From the Margins prize for short fiction in 2012. Leanne Simpson’s seeks inspiration from a variety of styles, from from storytelling to critical analysis.

To begin, the poem Callum written by Milton Acorn has a variety amount of poetic devices, which helps the poetry have more meaning and depth. Throughout the poem, the author was able to use similes, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, and hyperbole. Furthermore, the author uses similes and imagery to illustrate Callum’s handsome appearance, since he had hair like mustard-weed;.../that tangles inside his head.” (Acorn 1-6). This demonstrates that Callum’s hair stood up in tufts of yellow like a mustard-weed plant and his shoulders were probably brawny and boxy like a scoop, thus using imagery as well. Also, it is clear that Callum had clear, bright eyes, since he is referring to a lake which is transparent, in which one can see the

Tim Wise uses many different methods to make his case in his hour-long speech about white privilege. The first thing he does is appeals to his audience by pointing out the obvious fact that he is white, and continues to point

In “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Peggy McIntosh argues that racism can be found imbedded into the culture of society; conferring and denying certain privileges on some rather than all. This is a dangerous cultivation; endowing a strong expectation that white privileges are naturally deserving. Furthermore, making the cornerstone of McIntosh’s main argument; that white privilege is just a less aggressive synonym for dominance. When you receive privileges for looking a certain type of way, the recipient becomes immune; often not being able to acknowledge their advantages. As a result, this creates a cultural divide, between racial groups.

In conclusion, Peggy McIntosh pointed in her article, white privileges don’t come from an individual person or flaw of a person. White privileges arise from the flaw of the system placed in a society. Therefore, if we want to change the society and equalize the privilege amongst whites and colors, then change must happen within the system. It is the system that influences individuals to act upon in the society. A great way, we can demise

The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man depicts the narrator as a liminal character. Beginning with an oblivious knowledge of race as a child, and which racial group he belonged, to his well knowing of “white” and “black” and the ability to pass as both. On the account of liminality, the narrator is presenting himself as an outsider. Because he is both a “white” and “black” male, he does not fit in with either racial group. In the autobiography of an Ex-colored man, James Weldon Johnson uses double consciousness to show the narrators stance as a person that gives up his birthright for the “privilege of whiteness”.

According to the authors, what practice(s) create white privilege is viewed in their own unique perspective but, it all fits up under one category of a specific race having the advantage to have their freedom to do what they like. Based on McIntosh view that “whites in Western societies adore recompenses that non-whites do not practice, as "an undistinguishable package of unjustified assets” (Rothenberg, 2016). White freedom represents together evident and not as much of evident submissive rewards that white people may possibly not identify they require, which differentiates it from explicit favoritism or preconception. In fact, they have been accepted as the better social status in addition to freedom to move, buy, work, play, and speak freely. It

Ms. McIntosh made a particularly resonant statement about halfway through her essay; “my skin color was an asset for any move I was educated to want to make.” I have always been free to move around the country, to make my own choices, own my independence and enjoy the freedom of my liberation. Considerations she includes on her list of privileges never actively entered into my decision making process. I was always able to find suitable housing and employment and educational opportunities to advance myself in anyway I decided. This made me wonder if in fact I had earned through merit and achievement all I believe I have to date.

Wise’s examination of the inconspicuous character of racism 2.0 dovetails fittingly with our course’s recurring theme of institutionalized racism. In class lectures we have defined institutionalized racism as the discriminatory practices that have become regularized and routinized by state agencies, organizations, industries, or anywhere else in society. Although such practices might not be intentionally racist, they end up being racist nevertheless as consequence of the systematized and unspoken biases that have become increasingly convoluted and entrenched within society over time. It also doesn’t help white people to recognize these discriminatory practices considering they have been unconsciously tailored to be consistent with white perspective and mentality. In her article, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh examines not only how white folks often consider themselves to be a normative figure within society, but also how they are carefully taught not to recognize the advantages they gain from the disadvantages that impair people of color. In the article, McIntosh acknowledges the reality of her own white privilege and expresses, “In my class and place, I did not see myself as a racist because I was taught to recognize racism only in individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my group from birth” (McIntosh 4). In fact, even if white folks do not believe themselves to

In her lecture, McIntosh uses the term, “myth of meritocracy”. This term is used to imply that whites, particularly males, believe that they have earned and deserve respect. But, McIntosh believes this is not true, she says in her discussion that

In Peggy McIntosh’s, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” she introduces the topic of privilege from the point of view of a women in a world designed to favor men. She sees that men acknowledge the fact that women are disadvantaged but are unable to admit that they themselves have higher power. This denial of power is what creates the gap between men and women and is a clear stepping stone to her primary point of white privilege. The problem does not lie in the existence of white privilege but more so in the validation that is given to it. To be oblivious to this privilege is what gives it power to aid the white population, while simultaneously crippling other minority groups. She goes on to state that realizing there is hierarchy is the first step to systematically taking it down. This however has to start by finding where the problem originates.

In order to change these types of conditions, I think it should be put out in the open more. “White privilege” is supposedly this invisible knapsack. If more people knew about it, maybe they would try to be more conscious of how they treated others and how they exercised this white privilege without really knowing it. I think a lot of people’s reactions to a minority speaking, for example, is done kind of subconsciously and many may not realize that they are doing it because they’ve done it for so long and they’ve been trained in a way to think that it’s ok, and it’s not.

Prologue There was a restless man, so strange and serene, Who went by the by the name of Alexander Maclean, Up in the morning before night turns to day, Working so diligently to earn his weekly pay, Pushing to the limit to do his very best, Until cracks and sores come upon his two hard working hands, For the sake of his family he works so hard to provide, True love and fidelity to his children and wife, His dreams are never voiced and his wants are few, And most of the time his worries go unspoken too, He woke up every single morning sure that he was dead,

Peggy McIntosh, chapter on “White Privilege, color, and crime,” encourages readers to think about the world in the framework of race, class, and gender on a “White privilege” perspective. McIntosh

Billy Collins is one of America’s foremost poets born March 22, 1941, publishing more than ten books of poetry, and organizing the Poetry 180 Project. “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins, written in 1988, was part of the Poetry 180 Project, along with other poems, as a way to encourage poetry education in schools. Collins was a professor, and knows the importance of poetry in a classroom. Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry” is written to describe a struggle many English professors experience when they are teaching poetry to their students, by stating how it is instructed, how he wishes the students to read poetry, and describes what most student actually do. “Introduction to Poetry” is written to define a struggle many English instructors