I have to read excerpts from this book for English class on priviledge. The chapter is really good, and I'll bet the whole book is the same way....

Another reason privilege and happiness often don’t go together is that privilege can exact a cost from those who have it. To have privilege is to participate in a system that confers advantage and dominance at the expense of other people, and that can cause distress to those who benefit from it. white privilege, for example, comes at a huge cost to people of color, and on some level white people must struggle with this knowledge. That’s where all the guilt comes from and the lengths to which white people will go to avoid feeling and looking at it.

There's lots more. Ok, I think it's interesting. But if someone were to read this and deny the truth of it, they are living in a dream world. Hey, sounds like a lot of republicans these days....

So anyway, we are supposed to come up with a thesis based on critical analysis of a movie with ideology in mind. I really have no clue what that means. I picked The Missing. There are several to choose from, concerning Mexican or Native Americans. I don't have a reason for choosing this movie, other than the fact that it involves Indians in the late 1800s and I found it at Wal-Mart. Yeah, Wal-Mart, I was shopping there the other day. I hate doing it, but sometimes necessity outweights any misgivings I have about the place.

So, I came up with this idea and I'm writing it down before I forget. We are supposed to write about the movie, but within a much broader context outside the movie. I'm thinking my thesis will have something to do with the fact that Indians are portrayed in the movie as both good and evil, and that the movie is supposed to affect people by making them feel good about Indians (the good) while confirming their society induced prejudices (the bad) concerning them.