Post 2 Prompt 3

#3. What are the power privilege (gender, race, economics, etc)

German Gomez S.

March 17, 2014

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The Power Privilege

The sad truth is that race and gender give an advantage to people for having more power. Race is an idea that has guided humanity to an "Oil plus Water" effect. The oil and water effect is the idea of being in the same place but not mixed and divided by characteristics. In modern society, race has become part of every daily activity. Sports, economics, politics, etc. The idea of being black, gives other people the "concept" that blacks can be better at certain sports than white people. People who are white are 8 times wealthier in the United States than black people in the United States. 

Power is the ability to do something or act in a particular way. Society has being formed with the idea that whites are more advanced than black, and somehow that gives more opportunities to whites to success, and get more of what we call "power". In my opinion power is just a fake concept to give more authority to one race than to the other. 

Citations:

"Race: The Power of an Illusion." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Mar. 2014. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.