Blog#6

Identity Privilege

Identity privilege can be seen many different ways. Race, Religion, Gender Identities, Sexual Orientation, Class/ Wealth, Ability, and Citizenship Status, are just a few of the ways that people are classified into different categories of "privilege".

The only “privilege’s” that i would say I even qualify for would be, Sexual Orientation,  and Citizenship Status.

Sexual Orientation:

Due to the fact that I'm not a part of the LGBT community, I don’t have to fight for the right to do simple things like, get married, i can have any job i want without worrying about my sexual orientation, I can donate blood if i want to, I can adopt if i want to, I can live wherever i want to, if i was a guy, i could even be a boy scout leader if i wanted to, I can even be in the military if I want to, and the crazy part bout it all, is I don’t even want any of these things. That’s the crazy part.

Citizenship Status:

I love America!!! Lol as a United States citizen I'm afforded quit a bit of privileges, and most of them are stated in The Bill of Rights. For example, I have the freedom of religion, the right to bare arms, the freedom to assemble, the freedom of press, its amazing how many things that we can do that other countries can’t.

Now on the other hand, the privileges I don’t have are the main one’s that i tend to focus on. Such as Race, Gender, and Class.

Race:

I'm black. End of story.

Gender:

I'm a woman. End of story.

Class:

I'm broke. End of Story.

But on a serious note, as a black, lower class, woman, I am treated like crap by the government. As a woman, I make less money than my male coworkers. As a black woman that needs government assistance, I'm looked at as being less educated than the white person sitting directly next to me. I have found it highly unfair throughout my life, the way am automatically perceived by “outsiders”, that think they know my situation because of what they read on a piece of paper.