Reading Response 1

I think that the Serena’s example was a good strategy of the authors because it is totally relevant to the further explanation of, what I understood, the different types of ‘power’ and how it has been working; the example can easy be applied on the other types of power. Serena’s experience through her pregnancy is an issue that clearly is not gone yet, it is an issue that continue in the 21 century. The racial discrimination that she faced is something that many black women have to go through, but in addition to that, it is something that latin women have to faced too, in the aspect of the ethnical discrimination. This problem is one of the, which I consider, the main division of social classes, division within ethnicities, etc. However, I think that the problem persist due to the lack of experience that people may have and therefore tend to “not see” what is happening to others. From the perspective of privileged position, experience like Serena Williams just do not happen, is something that the members of that group cannot recognize it as a problem in our society; this is called the privilege hazard, where part of the problem is coming, from the blindness of the privileged people, from their ‘power’ of not seeing it or experience what others groups of people have to go through “This is not intentional; it comes from the ignorance of being at the top”. If other social classes cannot see or experience what others do, the problem will continue until it happens to an individual from their social group; a problem that is not just in the United States, it happens all around the world. The ignorance, unawareness to others, and lack of lived experience of those in the position of power is a problem.