Allan G. Johnson's "Privilege, Power and Difference"
This article is about:
- how we can fix the power struggle all over the world
Examples of Evidence:
- "Attentive listening is especially difficult for dominant groups." (pg. 141) You have to make people realize that they are holding people above themselves before you can get them to help change anything.
- "Sometimes stepping off the path of least resistance is a matter of directly calling attention to the system and how its organized." (pg. 143) Challenging the system by straying from the path everyone else takes as followers is what leads to change.
- " Make noise, be seen." (pg. 144) pretty self explanatory...
Comments:
This class has made me open my eyes.... its amazing the things that i can pick out now that clearly show power struggles around the world... not just in like... physical power... but all kinds of power... like on the everybody loves raymond rerun tonight when defining Good N' Plenty's... the white ones are the plentys cuz theres always more of them??? yeah... and the fact that my work only carries the caucasian Island Princess Barbie, when all the rinky dink stores carry the African American doll? whats that about? its amazing what sorts of things you can find when you are tuned into them....