The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression.

I was wondering what I was going to write about, and then I see tis article in my facebook feed. Georgia Southern students burn speaker's book after lecture.  Jennie Capo Crucet is  Cubean American novelist and short story writer. She was speaking on her novel "Make Your Home Among Strangers" that follows the story of a Hispanic girl, inspired by her own struggle growing up in a predominately white environment. Her speech was on White Privilege "But some students objected to her remarks doing the question-and-answer part of the lecture.

Jennie Capo Crucet spoke of white privilege being a real thing and benefiting the dominant culture. "Students at Georgia Southern literally burning my novel, This is where we are, America" (Crucet, 2019)". One student pressed her about her statements on the majority of white people being privileged."The student ask what make you believe that it's okay to come to our campus like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we are taught. I don't understand what the purpose was." (Crucet, 2019) Her response was because I was invited, and I talked about white privilege because it is a real thing that you are actually benefiting from right now in even asking this question.

The students had a hostile reaction that reminded her of an encounter in her real life. The students begin shouting back and forth at each other. She asked the faculty to follow up with the student and the other students who were shouting at each other and for them to have a meaningful conversation.
This shows that some people in the dominant culture does not realize the privileges that are afforded to them. This shows how some races feel dominated by the dominate culture. The only way to remedy the problem is to have open discussion which may be uncomfortable at times.

Reference:
Svokos, Alexander. 2019 ABC News.