Group 6 Blog Post

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/05/world/saving.aesha/?hpt=hp_c2

Commonplace Essay Sharing

Post your outline as a comment to this blog.  Then, reply to the comments left by others in your blog group about (1) specific things they may want to think about in terms of how timely, relevant, or compelling their topic is, (2) other ideas for how they may employ ethos, pathos, and logos, and/or (3) other ideas for how/why this topic might matter to college students.

As a reminder, the blog groups are as follows:

John
Jamie
Matt
Cantus

Demoye
Lindsey
Craig
Kristen

Scott
Xindi
Brian
James

Mason
Danielle
Danny
George

Sammy
Sijia
Tim
Kyle

Eric
Kayla
Daron
Corey

Group 5 White Privilege

http://ecolocalizer.com/2011/07/23/cartoonist-keith-knight-too-funny-to-miss/keithknight/

Sijia Song:

This picture portrays a scene in which three people of different races are watching the TV news about a race unknown criminal. I think this picture is interesting because though the three people in the picture are watching the same news, they have different reactions. The black man and the Middle Eastern man are worried and they hope the criminal does not belong to their races. However, the white man does not worry at all and says “Ha! They’ll never catch me!! ”. They react differently because of their different races and how the public see their races. Since white is regarded as “norm”, white people seem impossible to be criminals and do such horrible thing. But colored people “deviate” from “norm” and are treated not the same. They are judged from their race, more or less, but not from whom they really are. Sometimes color people are regard as bad guys just because their color. Although the black man and the Middle Eastern man in the picture may do not have any relationship (without race) with the criminal, they might be critiqued by others because they might be in the same race with the criminal. This picture shows the white privilege and racism.

Samuel Lloyd:

As I look at this picture, I find that it exemplifies pretty much society as a whole and how it treats different races as a whole. One thing I noticed about the picture though was that he made it kind of obvious that the three men weren't that different. They were all the same age, all were at the same place, and weren't wearing too different of clothing. I found that interesting because in spite of the fact that all of these men were "the same" in many aspects, two of them still had fear just based on where they or their ancestors came from.

Timothy Noe:

I think the most interesting aspect of this cartoon is the responses that each person in the cartoon makes. They are all watching the news and the two minority groups are hoping that the gunman is not of their race. I find this interesting because whenever something bad happens to someone of a certain race their entire race gets looked down on for their action. After 9/11 everyone began to stereotype people who looked to be of middle eastern descent as terrorists. In our society if the group of terrorists were white males no one would stereotype all white males as being terrorists. Whites have privilege in the United States simply because they are the majority group and that is not fair. Only individuals should be held responsible for their actions, not entire groups or races.

Kyle Sherman:

This cartoon is a perfect example of how white privilege works. Three people of different races are watching a new story about a gunman in their town. The African-American does not want the gunman to be a black guy because people may then judge the African-American race as whole, even though he had nothing to do with the shooting. Likewise, the Middle-Eastern man hopes that the gunman is not of his race, because people will may then look negatively upon all people of Middle-Eastern descent, although he also had nothing to do with the crime. On the other hand, the white man has nothing to worry about. His race is the dominant race in America, and even if the gunman is white, it will not cause people to judge the Caucasian race as a whole. The cartoon simplifies white privilege, and exemplifies the advantages that white people have only because of their race. An ethnicity should never be judged based on one person of that race’s actions, and it is immoral that non-white people in America must fear that the actions of others will cause them to be stereotyped.