Over the past few months, the term “white privilege” has been thrown around a lot. Like most people, I really don’t know what that is supposed to mean. The other day I was driving to the store and I saw a homeless man who was white panhandling for money, what was his privilege, getting his own corner to beg on?
In the news the other day I was reading that a math professor at the University of Illinois says the ability to solve geometry and algebra problems and teaching such subjects perpetuates so-called white privilege. This professor says, “School mathematics curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean Theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.” Uh… what? Read more.
