Aria By: Richard Rodriguez

(Reflect)

I had to reread the article a couple  times to understand what the author was talking about. Even know I'm not 100% but I do have a basic jist.  When I read the article it made me think about how many children are bilingual and English is not there fist language but we make it there so they can "survive" in a country were English is the common language.

I started student teaching on Monday and while working with two cousins the boy made a goofy mistake and his cousin laughed and called my loco which is Spanish means crazy. I said what did you call him that? She said cus he is loco and I said no he not and it was not nice to say that about him. He did not seem to mind they were just laughing and having a good time. What was interesting was after the conversation the little girl said that she could speak Spanish as fluently as she could speak English.

And I continued my day i noticed that most of the children had either spainish first name or last names.

Though still when they were in the classroom they addressed me in the teacher in English because that was there first language. As you go up in age like when I worked in middle school the children learn quick if they don't want the teacher to know something they said they switch from English which is suppose to be their first language to Spanish because they know that most teachers can either speak little or no Spanish unless they took classes teach it or  speak it themselves.

Ive always heard that someday Spanish is going to become the first language in the US. Though I don't believe it will ever over take English I think it come in a close second.
As Rodruguez says in Aria "What tget seem not to recognize is that, as a socially disadvantaged child, I considered Spanish to be a privet language.  What I needed to learn in school was that I had the right and the obligation to speak the public language of los gringos."  I think people should be able to speak the language they wish.  though no matter what it is it is apperent that english at least in the near fesature will be the number one language in this contry.

While on the web I goggled the term bilingual children and found a article that I think is very relevant to the article by Rodriguez.

White Privilage by

I went to youtube and typed in the word White Privilege just to see what I would get and one thing that caught my eyes was a rap song called White Privilege. As I listened to it with the lyrics I realized that it explains the whole idea of what we been talking about it class. Like how we live in a white society and that we as white people don't even realize that we have these privileges because of the fact that we cash in on them everyday without knowing because simply we are white.

Below I will put the lyrics and as link to the song. I hope you will see the connections as i did.

White Privilege
By: Macklemore
Lyrics

 

From LyricWik

Macklemore

Macklemore:White Privilege

Send "White Privilege" Ringtone to your Cell

Now nod your head and wake up.

I see so many people lost who really try to pretend
But am I just another white boy who has caught on to the trend
When I take a step to the mic is hiphop closer to the end?
'Cause when I go to shows the majority have white skin
They marketed the windmill, the air flair and head spin
and white rappers albums really get the most spins
the face of hip hop has changed a lot since Eminem
and if he's taking away black artist profits I look just like him
claim the culture that wasn't mine, the way the american
hip hop is gentrified and where will all the people live
it's like the central district, beacon hill to the south end
being pushed farther away because of what white people did, now
where's my place in a music that's been taken by my race
cultural appropriated by the white face
and we don't want to admit that this is existing
so scared to acknowledge the benefits of our white privilege
cause it's human nature to want to be part of something different
especially when your ancestors are European Christians
and most whites don't want to acknowledge this is occurring
cause we got the best deal, the music without the burden
of being black in a system that really wants you to rock
cause all you need is a program and you can go and make hiphop
and we hate the mainstream cause we're the ones that took it
now we listen to Aesop Rock and wear t-shirts that say Brooklyn
but it's not about black and white right
I mean good music is good music regardless of what you look like
but when you don't give them props isn't that selfish
that's like saying rock was actually started by Elvis
so where does this leave me?
I feel like I pay dues but I'll always be a white MC
I give everything I have when I write a rhyme
but that doesn't change the fact that this culture's not mine
But I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
this is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard
I said I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
but we still owe 'em 40 acres now we've stolen their 16 bars
hiphop started off in a block that I've never been to
to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
if I think I understand just because I flow too
that means I'm not keeping it true, nope
hiphop started off in a block that I've never been to
to counter act a struggle that I've never even been through
if I think I understand just because I flow too
that means I'm not keeping it true, I'm not keeping it true
now I don't rap about guns so don't label me conscious
but I don't rap about guns cause I wasn't forced into the conflict
see I was put in the position where I could chose my options
blessed with the privilege that my parent's could send me to college
now who's going to shows the kids on the block starving
or the white people with dough that can relate to my content?
marketed the music now adapted to the lifestyle
what happened to jazz and rock and roll is happening right now
where's my place in the music that's been taken by the media
with white corperations controlling what their feeding ya
I brought up aesop rock but Im not even dissing dude
we love hiphop and what do you think caucasians are listening to
and I speak freely when I write this
if a black emcee examined race there goes half their fan base, white kids
and this is so true. and we didn't even have to fight the system
we just went and picked up the microphone too
and we got good at it so we should be rapping
but only supporting them is like burning Jimmy and buying Clapton
now Clapton's incredible. but no Jimmy no foundation
so here comes history and the cultural appropriation
white kids with do rags trying to practice their accents
from the suburbs to the upperclass mastering a language
but hiphop is not just memorizing words
it's rooted in authenticity something you literally can't learn
But I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
this is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard
I said I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
but as I'm blessed with the privilege, they're still left with the scars

hiphop started off in a block that ive never been to
to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
if I think I understand just because I flow too
that means im not keeping it true, nope
hiphop started off in a block that ive never been to
to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
if I think I understand just because I flow too
that means im not keeping it true, Im not keeping it true

Send "White Privilege" Ringtone to your Cell

"Whit Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" By: Peggy McIntosh

(Quotes),

1) "I realized that since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there is most likely a phenomenon of white privilege that was similarly denied and protected.  As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage."  

McIntosh is talking about because she is white when she was growing up she was taught about how racism but everyone else but herself at a disadvantage but because she is white she has a unspoken advantage that puts her in a better place than say someone who is African American  or Hispanic. Then reason why she has this advantage is simply it because she is white. This is relevant to the article because the article talks about and recognizes the advantages and disadvantages of being white.

2) " I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks."

The author talking about because were white there are certain privileges that we are entitled to because where white and we use them everyday but at the same time were not supposes to know that we cash in on them because it would show us as being above everyone else. As McIntosh describes it an "Invisible weightless knapsack." It always there though we cant see it and we can dip into it anytime we need something. This is not something we know consciously but it there neither the less that the advantage of being white no matter how wrong it is.

3) "I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will.  My schooling followed the pattern my colleague Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out:  whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow "them: to be more like "us".

So she is saying that we as white are seen not as spcial but as the norm what everyone else should espiar  to be like.  So  because we are taught we are white and the ways of the white are the best when you work with or help others of another race you should help them to be more like what is considered the norm. This yet again brings us back to the main focus of the paper which is white privilege white people dont see themselves as being special but normal just like everyone else.

I think this goes back to early artical and our talk on the SCWAMP I know I don't try to be better than anyone else and because I'm white I don't feel like I'm better than anyone else.  But maybe that the point no matter or attention or how we feel it the white privilege is going to be there . That why we have to work harder to lessen it existence. as McIntosh says "so one who writes about having white privilege must ask, "Having described it, what will I do to lessen or end it?" I think that the question that needs to be addressed and  I hope in the feature a solution can be found.

On another note in the article Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit. She talks about how White and African American people  talk to people different because of there cutler and where they come from. Well I was at the Ester States Expo this weekend and the bathroom attendants where a couple African American women and ever time they told you which stall to go into they would call you sweetheart or baby or Hun. But when I go to the Washington county fair the bathroom attendants are a group of white women and they just tell you the stall number and that it. Now I would never have thought about it before  but after reading this article I realized that there is  a difference between how we grow up and how we treat people. When some one class you Hun or tell you God bless you or something it makes you feel good inside. But when they don't you just go about your business and leave.  I just find how en lighting these articles are. They make you think in ways you would never have thought before.

About me

Hey, My name is Anne though I use Anne Maire because in my FNED class which Im bloging for there is another girl with the same first name and spelled the same. This is really interesting because she is the first person I have ever met with the same first name of as me spelt the same with the silent e on the end.

Umm i guess a little about me. Im a sophomore at Rhode Island College and I am studying to be a education major.   I'm a member of  few clubs at my school  such as Inter varsity Christan association and chess club. I'm also a mentor for my school Open Books Open minds program which gets freshmen and transfers to read a book then join a discussion about it.

For fun I like to write book, poems, read, and play chess.
My hobbies include collecting pins, and trading cards.
There not much else to tell I like all kinds of music except rap what i listen to depends on my mood.
I like to be outdoors and hang with my friends.
Im quite but once you get to know me I a nice person.
Yah that about it this my first time bloging and we will see if I like it.
Yours truly
Anne Maire