Such privilege my ancestors had!! If only they knew!!
Posted on 09/20/2018 9:26:16 AM PDT by rickmichaels
White privilege is a phrase that can be heard in many conversations surrounding social justice issues across the country. Now, it will be the subject of a new stage play coming to Marquette University that opens Labor Day weekend.
Malaina Moore is the mastermind behind the "White Privilege" stage play. She’s a junior theater major, also working on a minor in social justice and welfare.
The play started as a class assignment. Her personal experiences helped shape the story, but so did her followers on social media, who she asked about while privilege:
“The feedback was a lot. Then I strayed away from Facebook for a while and went on to Twitter where it’s kind of a whole different atmosphere of like … harshness I want to say, and I think that that’s what made me go, this is something that I need to talk about because there are so many people with all of these varying opinions," Moore says. "So, a lot of was it was me getting on social media, but a lot of it was also talking to people I knew — my brothers, my best friends — and looking into my own my past that I had kind of been naïve about."
There are nine actors in the show — including Moore — five of them white, four of them black. It’s set up in a series of vignettes, each one with a theme: racism, cultural appropriation or police brutality. Moore says there’s a reason for that.
“I think that it’s really important with this play that it is traveling through themes. I love that everything ends with 'White privilege is … ' and it’s a clear definition statement," she says. "It’s more straightforward, and what I wanted to really do is make what I was saying very clear, that you know this is an example of where you can see white privilege, etc., and so I think that the vignettes made that more doable.”
For example, there's one vignette about gentrification.
Moore says she’s proud to tell the story, but she’s also worried about how people will react at Marquette, a predominantly white institution, and in theater, a predominantly white industry.
“There’s a lot of very 'out there' stuff that is in there and so, yes I’m very anxious," she adds. "I’m scared of that reception that I may get, but I also do think that if people are uncomfortable, if people are angry that means they feel something and that’s what theater is about, and I have no problem with that.”
However, Stephen Hudson-Mairet, seems less concerned. He’s the head of the theater program at Marquette.
He helped Moore bring the story to life with the help of local theater professionals, and says with a show titled “White Privilege” there should be no surprises about what people will see.
“In theater the way you have a conversation is by presenting it, and I think it’s a really well-done script in that it doesn’t cut any corners, it doesn’t pull any punches, and yet it provides the opportunity for everyone to see themselves on stage and learn from the process,” he says.
'White Privilege' runs at Marquette’s Helfaer Theatre this Friday through Sunday.
Moore says all she wants for her audience members, after they see the play, is to have it change something in them, so they can go out and change the world.
Until black culture changes, nothing will change.
I hear Nairobi is nice this time of year.
Tell that to the DC jogger.
You mean like when black men play basketball, a sport that was invented by a white physical education instructor for white players at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, MA back in 1891?
From Wikipedia: On December 21, 1891, James Naismith published rules for a new game using five basic ideas and thirteen rules.[3] That day, he asked his class to play a match in the Armory Street court: 9 versus 9, using a soccer ball and two peach baskets. Frank Mahan, one of his students, wasn’t so happy. He just said: "Harrumph. Another new game".[4] However, Naismith was the inventor of the new game. Someone proposed to call it "Naismith Game", but he suggested "We have a ball and a basket: why don’t we call it basketball?"[5] The eighteen players were John G. Thompson, Eugene S. Libby, Edwin P. Ruggles, William R. Chase, T. Duncan Patton, Frank Mahan, Finlay G. MacDonald, William H. Davis and Lyman Archibald, who defeated George Weller, Wilbert Carey, Ernest Hildner, Raymond Kaighn, Genzabaro Ishikawa, Benjamin S. French, Franklin Barnes, George Day and Henry Gelan 1–0.[6] The goal was scored by Chase.[7] There were other differences between Naismith’s first idea and the game played today. The peach baskets were closed, and balls had to be retrieved manually, until a small hole was put in the bottom of the peach basket to poke the ball out using a stick. Only in 1906 were metal hoops, nets and backboards introduced. Moreover, earlier the soccer ball was replaced by a Spalding ball, similar to the one used today.[8][9]
“She’s a junior theater major, also working on a minor in social justice and welfare.”
In other words she will be tens of thousands in debt and unemployed.
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What one society considers "just," another considers tyranny. People who use the term--most of whom are compulsion driven Leftists--should be queried as to just what they mean, and why that appeals to them. Anyone who apologizes for past achievements should also be queried as to exactly why!
Almost every time a white police officer kills a black for whatever reason the alleged civil rights folks have a demonstration for no justice no peace. When a white police officer, like the one in Ft. Worth, is killed by a black perp do the same alleged civil rights folks go into the black communities and plead with folks to speak out against such violence? No, all you her from them is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Reverse racism uber alles.
Such privilege my ancestors had!! If only they knew!!
Damn it.
All those years of hard work.
I should have just requested a White Privilege check.
Wench...check your entitlement.
When are they going to do a play about People of Color committing crimes against People of Color?
It's okay Mr. White, the newspaper is free.
I’m really sick of this BS and have suffered black privilege all my life which is a very real thing.
It's okay Mr. White, the newspaper is free.
No, she’ll become a “professor” at some worthless “university”, or get a phoney baloney government job.
Any private sector company who hires someone like her deserves the racist and legal hell she will put them through.
“White privilege is a phrase that can be heard in many conversations surrounding social justice issues across the country”
It’s the only time i hear the phrase.
Not sure i ever heard until very recent years (internet)?
White Privilege is real in that it describes a more prosperous population.It comes from a positive attitude toward education and from the concept of working for a living in order to make one’s life better and make life better for one’s progeny. Those concepts seem restricted to European derived peoples and to Asians, that is East Asians and those Indic Asians who migrate to America. White Privilege describes attitudes and hard work. Many White people believe, due to the indoctrination received in our entire school system, that it is unfair and wrong that hard work should make such a difference. People who don’t work shouldn’t thereby lose their fair share of society’s goods. Many simply do not understand the connection between work and reward. Wealth exists independent of work. It is just some bank of things and money that should be shared out equally. Working and getting more from that unchanging stash of Wealth is unfair and should not be allowed.
Black culture cannot change so long as government pays for it.
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