Wise

A Particularly Cheap White Whine: Racism, Scholarships and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood By Tim Wise
-Megan
1.)"White students are twice as likely as their african american or latino counterparts to be taught by the most highly qualified teachers and half as likely to have least qualified instructors in class."
1. I chose this quote because I found it very disturbing.
2. This quote is saying that already privileged white students have even more benefits by having the more qualified teachers teach them.
3. This line is giving a specific example as to how white students are more privileged than the nonwhite students.

2.)“Fact is, there are plenty of scholarships that have nothing to do with merit per se, but about which conservatives say nothing: scholarships for people who are left-handed, or kids whose parents sell Tupperware, or the children of horse- breeders, or descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, among many thousands of such awards (3). Apparently, it's OK to ensure opportunity for members of these groups, despite the fact that none of them have faced systemic oppression before, but it's the height of immorality to do the same for students of color, who have indeed faced explicitly racial obstacles in their lives.”
1. I chose this quote because I believe it to be entirely true.
2. This quote is explaining that there are thousands of scholarships out there available to students for things that they have no control over, that not based on grades or talent, that are acceptable but being colored is not an acceptable reason for getting a scholarship.
3.This line is addressing the issue of affirmative action and explaining why it's not any different from many less controversial scholarships.

3.)"Whites would enjoy extra and unearned opportunity relative to people of color, thanks to pre-existing advantages to which we were never entitled in the first place."
1. i chose this quote because I think it's a serious problem that we have as a society today.
2. This quote is saying that whites have less challenges just because they are white and they have no reason for life to be easier.
3. The quote is important to the piece because it further explains how nonwhite students have more obsticles than white students do.

Overall I found that this piece was easy to rad, but kind of redundant because I knew that most of these things were going on in the world. Unlike the other articles we have read there was almost nothing surprising about this reading. When reading this I was wondering if anyone in class personally, or knew someone who had been affected by something like this.