Noah Hernandez - Community Engagement Kit

The community engagement kit I found most compelling was the one titled White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack. In it, I found it quite interesting in the way they approach the subconscious nature of white privilege, and how it is inferred that white people are actually quite oblivious or unaware that they are subconsciously engaging in it. The definition itself that they used I found quite interesting, "I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was 'meant' to remain oblivious" (pg 1). It expresses how naturally and candidly it is evoked on a daily basis, through the most mundane and causal interactions and scenarios. 

One of the tools that they shared that was a potential way to recognize white privilege that I found interesting to comment on was:

If you can arrange to be in the company of people of your race most of the time.

I found this to be problematic because this is something that goes beyond white people. Varying ethnicities and people of color find a sense of comfort and belonging just naturally to be with people who are like themselves. While potentially they are oppressed, the issues belonging to that group of people are shared amongst one another in that community so by outlining this as a "segregated' issue amplifies the narrative that any form of separation is seen as a form of oppression. I find white privilege to be a completely different entity that has a totally different set of morals and recognizable aspects than this.