I love Tim Wise's work and a former student sent me this new article
pasted below that is much about media coverage, sexism/racism and White
Privilege.

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Below is an interesting analysis of what Tim Wise believes to be the
> double standard (based on race) that exists in the current election
> process. In case you don't know who Tim is, he is among the most
> prominent anti-racist activists in the U.S., having given lectures
from
> 1995 to the present in 48 different states, and on over 500 college
> campuses. He has trained a multitude of teachers, corporate employees,
> non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers in methods for
> dismantling racism in their institutions. Read his thoughts then give
> me your impression of what he has to say.
> 
> 
> 
> This is Your Nation on White Privilege By Tim Wise 9/13/08
> 
> 
> 
> For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who
> are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it,
> perhaps this list will help.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol
> Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your
> family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
or
> your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black and
> Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified as
> irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'fuckin' redneck,'
like
> Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes
with
> you, you'll 'kick their fuckin' ass,' and talk about how you like to
> 'shoot shit' for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible,
all-American
> boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six
> years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,
> then returned to after making up some course work at a community
> college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to
> achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as
> unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first
> place because of affirmative action.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
smaller
> than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with
about
> the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of
Manhattan,
> makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss
> on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator,
two-term
> state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're
'untested.'
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under
> God' in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for
the
> founding fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be immediately
> disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was
> written in the late 1800s and the 'under God' part wasn't added until
> the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and
terrorists
> their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to
> teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and
silly
> idea only supported by mushy liberals.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make
people
> immediately scared of you.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
> extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the
> Union, and whose motto was 'Alaska first,' and no one questions your
> patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your
spouse
> merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her
kids
> on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being
> disrespectful.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and
> the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of
> women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end
to
> child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you
> merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month
> governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in
> college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even
> agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
running
> mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has
> inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your
> party a 'second look.'
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
> 
> political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being
a
> typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and
> merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in
> Chicago means you must be corrupt.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
> pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize
> George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly
> Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian
> theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who
> say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for
> rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good
> church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black
> pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of
> Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign
> policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on
black
> people, you're an extremist who probably hates America. 
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by
a
> reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you
such
> a 'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give
> one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging
> the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
> 
> 
> 
> White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
> anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black
> and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a
'light'
> burden.
> 
> 
> 
> And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly
allow
> someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90
> percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are
> losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly
> isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure
about
> that whole 'change' thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and
ill-defined,
> unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and
> certain.