![]() I remind myself of this when I have trouble seeing racial injustice. While I may not quite understand what it's like not to be white, I do, as a woman, understand what it's like to be part of a marginalized group - and how frustrating it is when a member of the privileged group believes injustice doesn't exist just because they can't see it. ![]() However, no matter how easy or difficult a white person's life has been overall, they still have certain things easier than they would have if they were of another race. I thought that the fact that I knew people of color with easier lives than mine meant I didn't have white privilege. White people, however, often need to hear some examples of white privilege in order to understand how they benefit from it and how it hurts others.Īs somebody with white privilege myself, I didn't always get it. For those who don't have access to it, it is very real, pervasive, and harmful. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.White privilege is like the air we breathe: We don't really know it's around us unless it's unavailable. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University.īefore entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. He wrote-it is the epigraph of Frank Dikötter’s “The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976”-“Who are our friends? Who are our enemies? That is the main question of the revolution.” stirring up trouble, sabotaging socialist productive forces.” The party had been “infiltrated” by pragmatists and revisionists. The problem wasn’t his disastrous ideology, it was, he wrote, “feudal forces full of hatred towards socialism. In the mid-1960s Mao Zedong, suspicious of those around him, wary of the moves of erstwhile Soviet allies, damaged by a disastrous famine his policies had caused, surveyed the scene and decided it was time for a little mayhem. But what I find myself thinking of these days is the ritual humiliations, the “struggle sessions.” No one knows how many died historians say up to two million. The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a bitter thing, a catastrophe comparable in its societal effects, and similar in its historical feel, to the terrors of Stalin and the French Revolution.
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