SHOW AND TELL POST

So after listening in class these past couple of weeks, I decided to do my show and tell on white privilege.  It really interested me and concerned me that I had so many privileges as a white person than I realized.  I have so many privileges in my day to day life that I don’t even recognize and take completely for granted.  I found this blog on tumblr, and I found a lot of the posts very interesting and eye-opening.  The title of it is "This…Is White Privilege," and the link is: http://thisiswhiteprivilege.tumblr.com/.  Although some of the posts on here are very angry, I think some of the posts make some good points.  In one part, they say that white privilege is having almost all the new Apple emoji on the iPhone match your ethnicity.  This seems like such a little, insignificant thing, but it’s so true.  After reading this, I scrolled through my emoticons on my phone.  Every single little cartoon person with the exception of two or three was white.  And there are A LOT of people emoticons.  I usually just use them in texts without even thinking about it, but that’s because they look like me, so why would I have to think about it?  This is such a little thing, but it’s a very good example of a privilege that white people take completely for granted.  Another part of the blog points out that white privilege goes all the way back to our childhood.  She talks about how the majority of the Disney princesses are white.  As a little girl, I used to compare myself to  Disney princesses and use them as role models because I watched Disney movies so much, didn’t everyone?  I wanted to look just like Belle, or Cinderella, or Snow White, but I could aspire to look like them because they looked similar to me already.  I never saw that as a privilege before, but now I realize that it definitely was.  I can’t imagine the confusion I would have felt if all of those princesses looked completely different from me.  We were just little kids, but this is another thing we take for granted as white people.  Hopefully after reading this blog, I'll start appreciating the little things in my day to day life that can be seen as white privileges.