I took the implicit test. While I was taking it, I found it hard during the two key answer part, to associate myself with the negative words. For one part, you would associate yourself with postive words and the next part with negative words, and I found it harder for the negative part of the test. The next part of the test, I did not realize how many mental problems that I have suffered from in the past. It was also great to go back and look at all the different things I have done to treat it and realize what worked the best and what didn't help so much.
I think that I can use this in teaching by reflecting on the families. It is so easy to blame parents for problems that their child is facing. It is always easy to place blame, most people do it without even thinking. I see that everyday in the school that I work in. After taking this test, and seeing everything that I struggled with, I think I will have more of insite to stop and think about what the families are going through. For example, a kid can come to school in messy clothes with her hair not done, and I see teachers automatically blame for the parents for not taking care of their child well enough, but I believe that parents do the best that the can. The more senstive thing to do is help teach the little girl how to take care of herself so that she knows.
Overall, I think that it was very enlightening to take this test and reflect on my life.
I do not think that the article is compeletly true. I agree that there is a lot of food in the grocery stores that follow a typical American diet. Not necessarly a White American diet, just an American diet. The local Walmart that I use to go to had a section of Asian food, Hispanic food, ect. I do believe that this is common for all countries that the grocery stores follow a typical diet of the people that live in that country.
The article states that "If white people are accused of a crime, they are less likely to be presumed guilty, less likely to be sentenced to death and more likely to be portrayed in a fair, nuanced manner by media outlets". According to deathpenalityinfo.org, 55.6% of the the defendants in the US that have been executed since 1976 are white. 34.5% are black and 8.3% are latino. This means a majority of people who were executed are white.
I think that white privilege is a psychological state of mind, that is brought on by years of historical trauma. Such as the history that is laid out in the America's Black Holocaust Museum website. There has been severe trauma to people of color. This is bound to leave scars on the future generations. The article quotes Francis E. Kendall, that white privilege is "having greater access to power and resources than people of color in the same situaton do". This may be true in some parts of the united states, or even in some peoples shoes, though personally I don't see this. Growing up, I was one of the very few white students in my school. I was tormented for having a different color skin, so I can relate to being bullied for your skin color. I was told on a regular basis that they wanted to 'break the porcelin doll'. None of my teachers would do anything about it, because it was my word against theirs.
I understand what the article is trying to convey, though I do disagree with parts of it. I do appricate the author clarifying that the term white privilage is suggusting that white people do not suffer or struggle. It only says that white people have an advantage over people of color in the social system. I understand how someone could see that from their perspective as a person of color. All I ask is that you look at things from my perspective as well.
I absoutly love the idea of the classroom constituion. Instead of giving students a list of rules that you came up, let the students help to make the rules. That makes them own their classroom a little more. It is a great idea to uncourage them to think and be included in setting up the classroom. I think that classrooms should be more for the students than the teacher. By hanging their artwork for their constitution, it gives them something that they can go back and think about later.