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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
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12:00 am - This Journal is Friends Only!
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| Thursday, July 10th, 2008
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1:52 am - omg, god must of felt bad for me...
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008
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1:14 pm - Based only on the color of your skin, privilege quiz....
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If you agree to any of the following statements, you gain a point, if you say no, you don't gain a point, if you totally disagree with the statement minus a point. So answer 1, 0, or -1. Remember you are answering this solely on the color of your skin/race.
1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time. { }
2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I learned to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me. { }
3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live. { }
4. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.{ }
5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed. { }
6. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. { }
7. When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. { }
8. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race. { }
9. I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only member of my race. { }
10. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability. { }
11. I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy of my race. { }
12. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race. { }
13. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group. { }
14. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider. { }
15. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the "person in charge", I will be facing a person of my race. { }
16. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race. { }
17. I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race. { }
18. I can worry about racism without being seen as self-interested or self-seeking. { }
19. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race. { }
20. I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race. { }
21. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen. { }
22. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me. { }
23. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair. { }
24. I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection. { }
25. I will feel welcomed and "normal" in the usual walks of public life, institutional and social. { }
Tally:
I put together this quiz based on the work of http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html after attending a diversity workshop. In the workshop we were all asked to stand together on a line, and if we answered yes to a question to step forward, if we didn't agree stay in our spot, if we totally disagreed in the statement, took a step backward. So here i am, i took a few steps backward, a few steps forward and stayed in my spot for many questions, but i did notice my white colleagues so many steps ahead of me, they had so much more privilege then i did, they got so much further ahead in life solely on the color of their skin... crazy....
Hope you get something out of this... Bashar Makhay
myspace.com/makhay
PS: If your looking for a scoring guide on how privileged or under privileged you are, there isn't one, just compare your results to some of your friends of color and white friends. Also if you disagree with this test or have any comments... msg me, i want to know what you have to say.
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