Talking Point #3 (Dennis Carlson)

Dennis Carlson argues the same thing that Johnson and McIntosh argues kind of. Carlson says that schools and communities do not talk about "gayness" and try to keep it in silence and have hidden practices. He says that we should talk, recognize and have dialogue about cultural diversity and now a days in our schools and communities that is slowly starting to happen.

1." I want to suggest that public schools may play an important role in helping build a new democratic, multicultural community, one in which sexual identity...is recognized, in which inequities are challenged, and where dialogue across difference replaces silencing and invisibility practices." This reminds me of Johnson and talks about how we have to talk about the silent thing if we want to improve and fix them.

2."Within normalizing communities, some individuals and subject positions get privileged and represented as "normal" while other individuals and subject positions are disempowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic, criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence and in other ways "abnormal." Carlson says that this what the views have been like for most of this century and i feel that this is an important thing to point out and we need to change this view because everybody is different from one another but that does not make it right to view them as being sick or criminal.

3."Three techniques of normalization and (hence) marginalization have been of promary importancein this regard: (1) the erasure of gayness in the cirriculum, (2) the "closeting" and "witch hunting" of gay teachers, and (3) verbal and physical intimidation of gay teachers and students." These are the ways that Carlson says that school communities have kept "normalization" and i feel that it is important to first know the ways that schools have been silenceing gayness and then work to fix and change it.

Talking Point #2 (Rodriquez, "Aria")

I feel that Richard Rodriquez is saying that it is important for students that don't speak English as their first language, should be taught as soon as possible to be able to communicate in English or the language of the culture of power. But also Rodriquez says that the students should still learn to appreciate and recognize their native language. Some of this article reminded me of Lisa Delpits argument about culture of power. Rodriquez says that a student should learn the language of the culture in power if they want to succeed, but also they should not forget their native language.

1. "What I needed to learn in school was that I had the right and the obligation to speak the public language of los gringos." Here Rodriquez is talking about if he wanted to succeed then he was going to have to learn to speak the public language or the culture of power language of English.

2. "it would of pleased me to hear my teachers address me in Spanish when I entered the classroom...But I would have delayed...having to learn the language of public society." Rodriquez is talking about how he would of felt more comfortable if his teachers would have spoken Spanish to him, but this would have not prepared him for the real world.

3. "while one suffers a diminished sense of private individuality by becoming assimilate into public society, such assimilation makes possible the achievement of public individuality." This is saying by learning the public society language to make achievements possible, one is losing some of there individuality and this should not happen, I feel they should still recognize their culture.

Talking Point #1 (McIntosh/Muwakkil

In the articles that McIntosh and Muwakkil write, they argue that there are unearned privileges and power that white people and males have. The article talks about how most of the people who are privileged do not like to recognize it and are taught to be oblivious to it.

Some quotes and statistics that interested me from the articles were "white applicants with prison records were still more likely to be hired than black men without them." This was surprising to me and shows that there is still a good bit of racial biases in the united states. A quote I liked was "White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks." This quote from McIntosh's article helped me look at her argument a different way and understand it better

I liked how in McIntosh's article she gave us a list of ways that showed white privileges. This also helped me to follow her argument a little better. I felt that this weeks read was much easier to follow compared to Delpit's article because in these articles it got rate to the point and gave good examples. I think that both of these articles are with Johnson's argument because they say there is privileges that are ignored and not realized by some and Johnson would say that we should talk about these privileges and powers