I was very disappointed with the activity and how it turned out. The premise was to alleviate personal accounts within institutionalized racism, but how can one affectively do this without sharing one's personal experience, therefore adding to the discussion? I held off for a while because the whole conversation about ETHNICITY (NOT RACE) is very touchy and many comments seemed to be redundant, but when separated into groups, I found that our focus actually hit home for me, causing me to address a personal experience. The conversation took a spin for the worse because I was personally attacked. I made the comment, " for people like me, we have no choice but to cheat the system because the system was NOT made for us to succeed in it." I was told that my merit for entering Cal was questionable. This is absurd! The point of the conversation is to educate and tell others how to understand one another, not to bash and attack. That was a clear breach of our SOA as a class. I cannot say that I was shocked, given this person's narrow and harmonious- like view of society. Privilege is real! some of us have it, and some of us do not. I do not, but because I know how to work the system and use it to my advantage does not make me a cheater, it makes me a survivor. I am an African American Female who faces a double-bind of being of color and female. I face this everyday of my life and refused to be downplayed because I can play the game and can play it well. So the next time you want to question my merit, check my transcripts(yes they're legit), check my experience, and last and certainly not least, check your privilege.
-not written by but uploadede by JWP
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