Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” - Wayne Dyer Talking about race or racial issues such as BIPOC matters is always a sensitive matter. It can be challenging to stay objective while the writer might fear their words having the wrong effects. In current times, it has grown increasingly difficult to talk about racial issues without the message taken out of context. He is a soft-spoken man who says he doesn’t judge people by their race. But he says others often don’t return the favor when they see him. He longs for the day when Americans stop talking so much about race, which only increases division. He says some whites resist the term “white privilege” because they think they’re being blamed for something wrong. But I wonder, is that really an advantage? Is simply filling a diversity and inclusion quota really a good thing? When you think of it, no it isn’t. It’s rather exploitative — using someone’s color, gender, or sexual orientation to pretend that one — in this case, companies, are doing something about a serious social issue.

Supporting Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Graduate Students: Tips for Graduate Educators and Students Get Out of the Testing Rut: Expanding Your School Psychology Role by Understanding Your District's Needs This book is comprised of personal examples detailing how the different strategies and principles were used by Charlamagne. His ideas were presented in vignettes (some much longer than others…) instead of a massive tome that overwhelms more than inspires. Nothing like seeing that the writer struggles in the same ways as the rest of us. The book is not only an interesting memoir, but also an insightful exploration of the type of wisdom needed to truly flourish. Additionally, it serves as an antidote to many of the problematic pop culture and political narratives that are becoming more popular.

Notes

Charlamagne Tha God—the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pissing People Off,” co-host of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, and “hip-hop’s Howard Stern”—shares his unlikely success story as well as how embracing one’s truths is a fundamental key to success and happiness. Privilege isn’t limited to skin colour. There are many other attributes that can confer privilege like class, gender and sexuality. But where does this privilege come from? Unlike your accomplishments and achievements which can give you an advantage, privilege is not really something personal. Instead, it’s the way that the wider society has developed through time to create advantage for certain groups of people – usually those in power and their allies and friends. Some of these structures have existed for so long that we don’t even notice them. That’s the case for sexuality, for example. Unless we are queer, we probably don’t realise how strong the idea that heterosexuality is ‘normal’ is and how most of the messages and structures of society are aimed at heterosexual people. Same-sex marriage and other changes in the law have raised our awareness in recent times, of course. We swim in white supremacy, which makes it harder to point out unless you start looking for it,” she says. When using social media, how diverse is your feed? How diverse are your friends and followers? How diverse are those that you follow?

How do you respond when others make negative statements towards individuals of a different ethnicity, race, gender, ability level, religion, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity than yourself?Also, while he definitely benefited through the exposure gained via his time on Wendy William’s Radio show. Working for free, for over a year (being employed via her very wealthy husband) meant that he was definitely subject to some serious exploitation — something he should be weary of recommending wholeheartedly.

Effective Responses to Challenging Behaviors: Building Student Connection and Improving Behavioral Health For many members of the majority culture (i.e., those who identify as White) in the United States, being made aware of one’s classification as linked to privilege is likely not a common or welcomed experience. Indeed, many people have never been asked or required to reflect on their own privileged status, and in regards to racial identity, doing so might feel uncomfortable or even discordant with the common narrative regarding social and political changes over the years. For example, White Americans may attach the concepts of progress toward equality or being “color blind” as mitigating privilege. As a result, many White Americans either may not be aware of or may avoid considering how simply being White confers special status or experiences, potentially to the detriment of others. While many Americans may not view themselves as privileged because of their economic or social status, the advantage of being in the majority racial group is real, even if often hidden.

More also say that being Hispanic hurts people’s ability to get ahead in this country (51%) than say it helps (18%) or that it neither helps nor hurts (30%). Opinions are more split when it comes to the impact of being Native American – about the same shares say this hurts as say it neither helps nor hurts, while a smaller share says it helps. And while a plurality says being Asian neither helps nor hurts, more say it helps (34%) than hurts (21%) people’s ability to get ahead. Start by discussing how privilege looks in our society and which groups have privilege and which do not. Supporting Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Students and Families: Tips for Educators in K–12 Settings

It also comes ahead of a looming deadline set by the Parker review, which is pushing FTSE 100 firms to appoint at least one non-white board-level director by the end of 2021. The same target has been set for the FTSE 250 with a deadline of 2024. Talking about race relations in logical, fact based ways can lead to a better outcome for everyone. But talking about race relations on the basis of emotion, outrage, and one-side perspectives absolutely does lead to negative outcomes. Was Holder privileged? Yes, he was afforded space, power, and manipulation to carry out this alleged assassination. The ability to take life is the highest form of privilege.Because each of us likely has an element of privilege within our make-up (ethnicity, gender, ability level, religion, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity), individuals need not feel guilty for their privilege. That argument is why Deborah Foster wrote an essay titled “A Guide to White Privilege for White People Who Think They’ve Never Had Any.” It is misleading and disingenuous because more often than not, it’s surface deep. The company hasn’t done the work to educate its entire workforce not to be racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic for that matter, and yet they expose a representative of either or several of these groups to the masses — or a better analogy would be: it’s like putting a zebra into a den full of lions. Can you imagine what would happen? Could you imagine how that would feel like? Talking about race and privilege: Lesson plan for middle and high school students,” lesson plan: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/social-justice