I interviewed three people of the same racial and ethnic heritage as I, to see their opinions on white privilege. I asked each person four simple questions:

1. Do you believe the white privilege exist?
2. Why or why not?
3. If you do believe that white privilege exist, how can we dismantle it? What can be
done?
4. If you don’t believe that white privilege exist, how do you explain racial disparities in
income, education, and health?

I had predicted that at least 2 out of the three that I interviewed would believe that white privilege exists. I wanted to see how that one person that didn’t believe that there is white privilege would answer question four. Instead I got the opposite, in which not one of the three that I interviewed got to question three. I wasn’t at all shocked but then again I was not expecting all three to believe that white privilege exist. The only reason I thought that the majority of the three that I interviewed were going to believe that white privilege exist was because I am part of the the Hispanic race. Most Hispanics believe that the only reason we are not making it is because there is some one stopping us, someone that has more power. We vote for those presidents, and mayors whom we hope and think that will help us “poor and middle class”, who will give back to the community, and help us Hispanic out. However, we need to also realize that we need to step up to the game, even though white privilege exist; in which they get everything handed to them.

Furthermore, when asked why they believe that white privilege exists the three main topics that were mentioned where jobs, wealth, and education. Basically the reason why they feel that white privilege exist is because “whites” because there are more affluent, they receive a better education, therefore receiving better jobs. However, to my surprise, I would expect them to have the same solution, but they did not. The first person I interviewed, of course said the obvious of offering high position jobs to their for not having the inequality we have between races. So, basically her solution veered towards economics, in which she wants our race to be more wealthy. The second person I interviewed said that we should be judge on our abilities and not our race. Basically, her goal was to end racism and stereotypes. The third and final person, said that “we are currently trying to dismantle it through different programs through such affirmative action and no child gets left behind”, he later goes on to say that it is a slow process but it is happening. So basically, instead of saying that other races should have the opportunity to better education and better jobs, he said that we are doing something to dismantle slowly but surely. Basically, you start little and then eventually it will lead to bigger things like better jobs and a better chance in education and less racism and stereotypes.

In conclusion, having interviewed people of my Hispanic race, I believe lead to them saying yes because they are of a different race. They have experience and have seen through their eyes the inequalities between races. Furthermore, it is why they believe that people of our race should be offered high positions in jobs and a higher and better education.