A Particularly Cheap White Whine

A Particularly Cheap White Whine: 
Racism, Scholarships and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood 
By Tim Wise
-- Jennifer





1)"Consider a few things that have happened in the past month-and-a-half, in no particular order: First, comedian Michael Richards goes on a racist tirade at an L.A. comedy club, screaming the n-word at two black audience members, over and again for several minutes. Then, white students at four entirely different colleges dress up in blackface or throw "ghetto" parties, at which they mock low-income African Americans: next, a group of Muslim clerics are thrown off a plane because passengers get nervous after seeing them engaged in evening prayers prior to boarding their flight; and finally, New York police fire fifty shots at a group of unarmed black men, for no apparent reason, killing one who was due to be married the next day."
1. After reading this quote it made me think of what could have been going through these people's heads when they were doing all of this.
2. What the comedian did was very rude and unnecessary.  The incident with the new work police is just wrong. I don't understand how they could shoot people that are unarmed for no reason.


2)"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 the least qualified instructors in class being taught by highly qualified teachers is one of the most important factors in school achievement."
1.This quote does not make sense to me.  Whites are considered "privileged" so they get the best teachers, but the students that are considered unprivileged get the teachers that aren't as qualified.  It doesn't make sense to give the students that might need more help with the less qualified teachers. 
2. Also, I don't understand why a certain group of people get more qualified teachers over another group of people.


3)"It ignores the fact that the average white student in the U.S. attends school with half as many poor kids as the average black or Latino student, which in turn has a direct effect on performance, since attending a low-poverty school generally means having more resources available for direct instruction (5). Indeed, schools with high concentrations of students of color are 11-15 times more likely than mostly white schools to have high concentrations of student poverty (6)."
1. I think that if there are many poor students in a school and it effects the performance of the other students that something should be done.  It is no one fault, but it isn't fair for the students that are poor and it isn't fair for the students that are not.




This reading had a a lot of good information even though the first quote i used was very disturbing and crazy how things like that can happen and people can get away with treating other people so horrible.