Analysis Of 'What My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege'

What is racism? Also, is it intentionally being done? Racism is an act of prejudice against an ethnic group. According to J Dowsett in his article: What My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege, the author argues that not all things that is being spoken by color people are meant to “rub a lot if white people the wrong way” (Dowsett). Dowsett in his text uses the analogy of himself riding a bike along with cars as an example to emphasize privilege talk toward white people without making them feel like they are being attack. Counter arguing, color people should not feel as if they are being discriminate against too because it was unintentional as in Dowsett’s article- the biker and a nice and nonaggressive driver. In another article: Should

In this article, Dowsett uses the analogy of a bike argue his connotation when a white person is bombard by the term white privilege. Lastly, the author is trying to reach out to white people that the next time someone try to use the term “white privilege” remember they aren’t calling you a racist, they just want you to try empathize with how scary it is to be on a bike sometimes. One point I notice that the author is debating is about how the system allows discrimination to happen in analogy to how driver has more “privileges” over the biker. An example is how the rode is made for both cars and bikes, but when a car comes zooming by not realizing how frightening it may put a cyclist in danger they only see the road from the privileged perspective of a car. In another instance the author uses is the snowy weather. The fact that when it snows the snow in the street are being push over to the bike lane not realizing that cyclist exist. Another topic that caught my attention while reading the article is how Dowsett paints a picture of a nice