Chapter 4

The 4^th chapter was talking about making privilege happen; Johnson shows this bay talking about different needs of humans, acceptance being at the top of the list. Acceptance is big part of all humans’ lives and when this need is not meet, it can be for many reasons such as avoidance or rejection just to name a few. These can all be triggered just from turning your head a certain way or saying something that would otherwise have made the person feel that he had exceeded the expectations that you had set fro him before even looking at them. This can be put to race by looking at African Americans, as standards are set for us with out us even doing anything just because were black. As the book puts it “people of color who don’t get mentored and who’s potential and accomplishments are invisible.”(Johnson, 59)

The author makes a very relevant point in this chapter; most accomplishments by blacks are hardly seen or overshadowed by another accomplishment by someone else. Or it can be totally taken in the other direction, in the Boondocks, a black cartoon, they make a lot of racial jokes and or references to real people and they have been sent a lot of hate letters and some that have been easily found on the internet just by putting in the name, but if you look at lets say, Family Guy, they have made a lot of racial jokes over the years and though there may have well been letters sent in, you wont find as many articles on it. This is a perfect example privilege. You can get away with a lot when you are with the right class, and that is not limited to whites. If you look at affirmative action, not only black have benefited from this, women in general have been getting jobs as well.

My views on this are very clear; this is all a mindset that you put yourself in. I believe that I said this in a earlier blog, but you think that you are oppressed, than you are, like most things, racism takes to parties, the oppressed and the oppressor, with out one the whole idea is basically destroyed. That wont make it go away quickly but that is how most people get noticed in this world; they look past the rest of the world and do something that stands out so much that you have to pay attention to it, like most comedy that is done, you don’t really notice it until you hear one thing that interest you, even if you don’t like the person you become intrigued and compelled to listen more.