Sunday, January 20, 2013
THESE PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY ARE ENTITLED TO WHITE PRIVILEGE ON DCF PLANTATION
I recently started reading the book The Color of Welfare [how racism undermined the war on poverty] by Jill Quadagno. In this book it is clear that a majority of American whites opposed blacks [in 1960s,70s & 80s] getting welfare, housing, going to schools in white enclaves or child care benefits to improve their lives. Yet these same opponents enjoyed white skin priviliges, that enhanced caucasian life, and thought nothing of it. Seems as if little has changed in America relating to white skin priviliges, and how it is viewed as a God given right. At the Connecticut Juvenile Training Facility in Middletown, Connecticut the same sort of scenario is enacted for a new cast of caucasian characters. The fierce war going on at this facility between management [95% white] and employees not in management [90% non-white] is about who drinks from the cup of white skin privilige. If you look at items/graphs/charts posted on this website it is clear something is wrong; in the school system at CJTS most teachers are caucasian, most clinicians with higher degrees are caucasian. In every aspect of running that facility whites drink heavily from a goblet of privilige; anyone or thing threatening this power base is destroyed or marginalized, activists such as myself et al. (and others) are called racist-loose cannons or worse behind closed doors. CJTS management is now even trying to terminate activists [say Cornell Lewis] over so called other issues, when the real problem is my highlighting injustices on the CJTS plantation. In America there is atendency to define racism as "one person or group treating another badly." I believe by saying this people avoid a larger discussion on 500 years of white skin privilige in America and how this translates into what is occurring at CJTS; whites in power and thinking it is their right. Then let us not forget lessons of history, how recipents of white skin privilege destroy attempts to dislodge them from a comfortable roost.
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