Guilt for being white? Do I feel bad for being white? No. Do I feel bad for not understanding others when it comes to race, color, religion? Yes. Do I feel guilty being a parent? Every damn day. I feel guilty over many things. Should I feel guilty over the things I get that a person of color do not get? What do POC get that whites dont get? Am I naive? Am I racist? I dont understand.
I dont see the benefits I have as being a benefit of being white, I see it as a benefit of living in America. Yeah I get mad when I hear of all the benefits immigrants are allowed. I dont think immigrants should be allowed benefits until they are US citizens. Im sure that makes me a racist. I do not think that an immigrant in a US prison for murder should be allowed to get a free education, free medical attention and the other things prisoners get.
the other things prisioners get.

Wow, Sam is really making me think about being white and how being white is unknown to more people in our race and culture. I want to be inside his head and watch his thoughts like a movie. I really get disappointed when his lectures end.
After watching the YouTube video, I wondered what country was Louis traveling to in that time machine. Im sure it was either in the United States or in Europe. I dont know much about other cultures outside the US but I am sure that there is a non white culture somewhere that does not have whites as KING OF THE MOUNTIAN.

I dont know how I can sum up this lesson. I think the part that made the biggest impact on me was when Sam used the analogy of the Indian family living in the White community and the white son have a meal with them. I never realized that just walking into the home of a non white person could have an impact on their lives. I worked for many years as a CNA and a home health aide. I have walked into the homes of many older people both white and those of color. I am now wondering what impact I had on their lives or if I had an impact. I also have a new understanding of the saying "You never get the chance to make another first impression". First impressions are how people SEE you. Some people may be judging you on your color, your race, your sex, your looks. We live in such a superficial world that I dont believe any person unless they are blind does not judge another on anything other than looks.

I agree. Even being raised in a racist family, I didn't dislike someone because of their skin color. I still don't do that. Actions speak louder than words and if you are a mean person, I don't care what color you are, I won't like you. I really don't understand all the hype over skin color. Being white is not any better than being brown, black, yellow, red, whatever color. Do other cultures sit in classes and talk about how much better their culture is compared to ours? Do they decide that their skin color is better than all others?

Im glad I took this class. I had not realized that there are so many inequalities among ethnic groups and races. The most interesting thing to me was the 3 causes of inequality. It is hard for me to believe that some people cannot look beyond race to see that there are other reasons for differences in the money made, the jobs held or lost and the education received. It bugs the shit out of me to think that there is a black, brown , red student at Penn State who does better than I do but its not acknowledged but instead, there are excuses made for them being smart or for that matter, excuses for me being not as smart.

I have to disagree with you on the drug offender stats being racist. The fact is that white people are given more opportunities in their life time then blacks and browns. White are given the chance to get off the streets where blacks and browns growing up in the same areas are not. I am not saying that whites are not in jail in high numbers but I believe that whites tend to be in jail for other offences such as car theft, assault and murder.
The one question I do have is why do they only look at and use drug offences?

As I watched these lecture pod casts, I couldn't help but think of a movie I watched on the Disney Channel called "The Color of Friendship". It was created in 2000 and was set in 1977. It is about a WHITE upper class South African girl,Mahree, who becomes an exchange student to the US. When she arrives at the airport, she is greeted by her host family, The Dellums. At first they do not realize that Mahree is the exchange student because they are a BLACK family and they are EXPECTING a BLACK child from South Africa. Mahree mistakes Mrs Dellum and Piper as the hired help of her host family. Throughout the movie, the girls learn from each other on political views especially apartheid. Basically both families are shocked and in the end, they all get along and live happily ever after. The thing I did not know was that this movie is based on a true story called "Simunye". So this really happened, a white girl from S. Africa went to stay with a Black family in DC in 1977, during the conflict for The biggest thing I wanted my kids to take from this movie was the meaning of the weaver-bird story. To sum it up, this bird builds nests in all the trees in South Africa and allows any bird to live in it and will help care for its young. The weaver bird is accepting and caring as we all should be.

Second, WOW is the first word that came to mind when Sam started with the evolution and how humans are more related to chimps and chimps are more related to humans than they are to gorillas. Now with all that Sam said about evolution and creation, I am wondering how others feel about the history channels insight on the possibility that the human race was created by higher beings from outer space. I feel asleep the other night watching this and all I can remember hearing was that Noah's mother was artificially inseminated by a being from outer space so that Noah would be born and could create a new and improved race and that the great flood was caused to rid the world of all imperfections in humans and it would have been physically impossible to have a male and female of each animal species get on the boat at the same time not to mention live together is such tight space for 40 days and 40 nights. There were several other supporting ideas for this theory. One being that Noah couldn't have built the Arc on his own. What category of evolution does this fall under?

The father of my third child was raised as the person you described in your post. His biological father is black, his mother white. His biological father was not around until Dave was about 19. Dave's mother decided that it would be better to lie to him and the community he lived in that he was Native American. Most people bought it until Dave's hair became kinky. Dave's mother continued to lie to him and even go as far as telling him his biological father was dead so that he would not know the truth. Dave feels he missed out on knowing his true heritage because of this.

I certainly didn't know as much as I thought I did. There are so many things that I found interesting in this lecture that it is hard to pick just one thing to talk about. I was really intrigued by the notion that blacks differ from African Americans. I thought that African American was the new term for black people so it would be more PC. Another thing that I am amazed by is the treatment of the Native Americans. I didn't not realize that FEMA gave the hazardous trailers to the Native Americans. Doesn't that come close to the same type of germ warfare as when Amherst gave the Small pox infected blankets to the Indians ?
I have a few questions that have popped into my head as I watch the lecture......
1. Would the porn industry be one of the highest money producing industries if it was not considered taboo?
2.Why are the writers of US history book failing to put information in about the ongoing struggles of the Native Americans, the struggles the Irish faced when coming to America. I certainly did not know that the life of an Irish immigrant was worth less than that of a slave.
3. Why isnt WHITE SLAVERY mentioned in history books?

WOW