The Golden Stick

I found it interesting that when we did this activity in class that most color people were so far away from the stick compared to the non color people, who were really close to that "golden stick". This activity opened my eyes to how in this country there is white privilege. Me, personally, kept moving backward and backward after every question instead of forward and I really did not move forward throughout the activity, which in a way I feel that society is the same way in that colored people are not moving forward. I am finding it interesting that instead of the gap narrowing, it is instead increasing more and more in this day and age. At the end of the activity when it came to reaching for the "golden stick", the people in the back mostly thought, “What is the point in trying” including myself. It is the same in the society we live, in that many colored people or "under privileged" people have the mentality of why try if the big prize is so far away or impossible to reach and most likely will be handed to a white person. This is a big issue in our society, but it is not viewed as a problem and maybe it will never be viewed as a problem. Of course, there is hope, but with how society is now a days with white privilege, that the hope is shrinking for colored people.

Daniel B. Kin.338i Sec.6