The professor, Dr. Chambers, broke up the course into different modules that corresponded to different minority groups. During one week, a lot of the videos and readings discussed "whiteness", white privilege, and what this means. One of the assignments was a recent documentary from MTV that explored the idea of white privilege at length. The narrator interviewed not only whites, but various minority groups, and some of the things that were said shocked me. The majority of the people from the minority groups who were interviewed said that they knew all about white privilege, and that they had seen it first-hand many times throughout their lives.
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