What Is White Privilege In Spike Lee's Film Bamboozled

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Spike Lee's film Bamboozled focuses on how American pop culture has presented us with varying depictions of black figures, families, and lifestyles. Dunwitty points out that he, a white man is more in touched with the black culture than Delacroix. Dunwitty, at one-point states “ I have a black wife and two biracial kids. Brother man I’m blacker than you” (Bamboozled) referring to Delacroix. Comparing this scene to Macintosh, Peggy. White Privilege and Male Privilege; privileges accorded to them by society in which they live to be unconscious, oblivious, and unmindful of these privileges. Macintosh stated that white privilege is “I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely and positively
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