Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us By: Linda Christensen

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     This piece was very interesting to me in how it talked about things that i have never thought about before but have seen frequently.  just like most kids in America today i grew up on watching Disney Movies and the Disney channel.  I always saw that the rich man was in charge and the out of shape person of color was the servant but never really had a second thought about it.  In this article it talks about how the white person was always the person in power and that really relates well to Lisa Delpit's culture of power that says the white man and white culture is dominant.  This piece just shows how true that really was because in movies and shows the main characters are mostly white and always were in the past.  This example is more subtle than many other examples but it is just another piece of the puzzle in why the culture of power exists.  Another article that relates to this one was Peggy McIntosh's white privilege.  In Christensen's piece the actors were all privileged because they were white and that must have played a role in getting the job.  All three of the articles went really well together because in some way they all had to do with white people having an advantage over other ethnicities