What is white privilege: Myth or Reality.
Can you connect it to the essay topic?
Who are mass shooters likely to be. Why? How does it connect to the essay topic?
What do powerful groups like the NRA do? What are their political influences? What is the future? How do all of the above influence gun control laws? How about the future of politics? Of us as white people? Of us when we become the minority.
Who are mass shooters likely to be. Why? How does it connect to the essay topic?
What do powerful groups like the NRA do? What are their political influences? What is the future? How do all of the above influence gun control laws? How about the future of politics? Of us as white people? Of us when we become the minority.
What is
white privilege? White privilege is a term for societal privileges that benefit
people identified as white in western countries. It is also something that
white people do not create or enjoy on purpose, most of the time they don’t
even notice it. It can just happen at any time in everyday life. There are many ways in which white privileges
are portrayed, and today in time most of them can go by unseen and unnoticed by
many different people. White privilege provides white people with benefits that
we do not earn or necessary deserve. Colored people do not enjoy that because
it is unfair to them. It also creates real advantages for white people because
we are immune to a lot of challenges that colored people are not immune to.
This privilege also shapes the society and the world we live in by the way we,
as people, interact and deal with one another. White privilege is definitely a
reality not a myth. It’s a reality that
happens even when we don’t mean for it to. It has become a form of everyday
life for some white and colored individuals. But white privileges could all
change someday. One day white people may become the minorities of the United
States and the whole white privilege thing will change and possibly even flip
right before people’s eyes. That would change the lives of everyone, especially
the lives of colored individuals and the rest of the minorities.
Today, in
the United States, we hear a lot on the news about school shootings and other
terrible mass murders all around the nation. There have been quite a few school
shooting in the past here in the United States and the rate has been going up.
One thing most people notice when they hear about a school shooting is that the
shooters are commonly white American males with personal problems and obviously
some mental problems. 97 percent of school shootings have been actions of males
in the United States, and out of that 97 percent, 79 percent of those males
being white Americans that are usually middle class and not too old. In one of
the articles it says that “these shootings are a direct reflection of white
male privilege and the consequences that occur when groups like the NRA control
influential conservative leaders.” The articles also point out that when
colored males commit a murder it is usually because they think that the person
they were after had wronged them in some way and so they go after only them.
These males also don’t commit suicide after committing these crimes either. But
when white males do it they have a whole different mindset. They think if I am
going to die, then so is everyone else. This is what causes the mass murder
suicides like school shootings. They go and kill or injure as many people as
they can before killing themselves. School shootings are one of the biggest
reasons why some people think we need stricter gun control laws here in the
United States. American citizens want automatic weapons of the streets and out
of dangerous people’s hands. This is causing a big “uproar” between some of the
people and the government. One argument that the people have is that even
though you make those guns illegal, doesn’t mean that they murderers and other
bad people aren’t going to get their hands on them. It is just like drugs.
Drugs are illegal yet almost anyone can get their hands on some if they wanted
to. I personally hope that they don’t make new gun laws because according to
the constitution we have the right to own them.
The NRA, or National
Rifle Association, is an American social welfare organization that supports gun
rights. They NRA organization started in 1871 and has been going strong ever
since. However, within the past few decades the National Rifle Association had
been seeing a down fall in there organization. This is because of the people,
including the government and the minorities that want more gun control with
stricter laws. Though the National Rifle Association has lasted for a long
time, it has been said that the NRA organization may not last for much longer.
The reason for this is because according to polls, whites tend to favor gun
rights over gun control by a certain amount. But whites, who are 63 percent of
the population, think differently from other races. African Americans say that
gun control is more important than gun rights by 72 percent. With the increase
of African American population, gun control is getting more and more
supporters. Whites won’t be in the majority for long and when we, whites,
become the minorities things will change. So in the future of the United
States, there will most likely be stricter gun control because of the minority
change that is expected to happen.
I am sure that if whites become the
minorities in the United States that there is going to be a lot more change
than just gun control and possibly the end of the NRA organization. I could
even see white privilege going down and fading away. Becoming the minorities
could change the everyday life style by the way we think and interact with each
other. I know my life would change if the government took my guns away because
of all the fun times I am able to have with others being able to hunt and
shoot. Gun control could become way more strict because of not only the school
shootings but because of the minority growth and them wanting gun control over
gun rights along with the federal government.