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Do you agree with this list of "Black Male Privilege"?

The Black Male Privileges Checklist
Jewel Woods

http://jewelwoods.com/node/9

Leadership & Politics

1. I don’t have to choose my race over my sex in political matters.
2. When I read African American History textbooks, I will learn mainly
about black men.
3. When I learn about the Civil Rights Movement & the Black Power
Movements, most of the leaders that I will learn about will be black
men.
4. I can rely on the fact that in the near 100-year history of
national civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and the Urban
League, virtually all of the executive directors have been male.
5. I will be taken more seriously as a political leader than black women.
6. Despite the substantial role that black women played in the Civil
Rights Movement and Black Power Movement, currently there is no black
female that is considered a "race leader".
7. I can live my life without ever having read black feminist authors,
or knowing about black women’s history, or black women’s issues.
8. I can be a part of a black liberation organization like the Black
Panther Party where an "out" rapist Eldridge Cleaver can assume
leadership position.
9. I will make more money than black women at equal levels of
education and occupation.
10. Most of the national "opinion framers" in Black America including
talk show hosts and politicians are men.

Beauty
11. I have the ability to define black women’s beauty by European
standards in terms of skin tone, hair, and body size. In comparison,
black women rarely define me by European standards of beauty in terms
of skin tone, hair, or body size.
12. I do not have to worry about the daily hassles of having my hair
conforming to any standard image of beauty the way black women do.
13. I do not have to worry about the daily hassles of being terrorized
by the fear of gaining weight. In fact, in many instances bigger is
better for my sex.
14. My looks will not be the central standard by which my worth is
valued by members of the opposite sex.

Sex & Sexuality
15. I can purchase pornography that typically shows men defile women
by the common practice of the "money shot."
16. I can believe that causing pain during sex is connected with a
woman’s pleasure without ever asking her.
17. I have the privilege of not wanting to be a virgin, but preferring
that my wife or significant other be a virgin.
18. When it comes to sex if I say "No", chances are that it will not
be mistaken for "Yes".
19. If I am raped, no one will assume that "I should have known
better" or suggest that my being raped had something to do with how I
was dressed.
20. I can use sexist language like bonin’, laying the pipe, hittin-it,
and banging that convey images of sexual acts based on dominance and
performance.
21. I can live in a world where polygamy is still an option for men in
the United States as well as around the world.
22. In general, I prefer being involved with younger women socially and sexually
23. In general, the more sexual partners that I have the more stature
I receive among my peers.
24. I have easy access to pornography that involves virtually any
category of sex where men degrade women, often young women.
25. I have the privilege of being a part of a sex where "purity balls"
apply to girls but not to boys.
26. When I consume pornography, I can gain pleasure from images and
sounds of men causing women pain.

Popular Culture
27. I come from a tradition of humor that is based largely on
insulting and disrespecting women; especially mothers.
28. I have the privilege of not having black women, dress up and play
funny characters- often overweight- that are supposed to look like me
for the entire nation to laugh.
29. When I go to the movies, I know that most of the leads in black
films are men. I also know that all of the action heroes in black film
are men.
30. I can easily imagine that most of the artists in Hip Hop are
members of my sex.
31. I can easily imagine that most of the women that appear in Hip Hop
videos are there solely to please men
32. Most of lyrics I listen to in hip-hop perpetuate the ideas of
males dominating women, sexually and socially.
33. I have the privilege of consuming and popularizing the word pimp,
which is based on the exploitation of women with virtually no
opposition from other men.
34. I can hear and use language bitches and hoes that demean women,
with virtually no opposition from men.
35. I can wear a shirt that others and I commonly refer to as a "wife
beater" and never have the language challenged.
36. Many of my favorite movies include images of strength that do not
include members of the opposite sex and often are based on violence.
37. Many of my favorite genres of films, such as martial arts, are
based on violence.
38. I have the privilege of popularizing or consuming the idea of a
thug, which is based on the violence and victimization of others with
virtually no opposition from other m

I’m pretty much a "privilege list junkie" . . . I find lists like these incredibly enlightening and fascinating.

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