How does my privilege affect my work? How does my privilege affect how I interact with my friends and the public? How might knowing my privilege influence how I choose to practice as a social worker? These are questions I intend to continue to ask myself and evaluate as I continue my career and education. I intend to measure my expansion of knowledge about race and white privilege through my awareness. I believe measuring my awareness is the best way to determine growth. I have already begun to notice my awareness of my own understanding of white privilege and that of others as well, or lack thereof. My goal is to research and read an article once a week about race or white privilege and I will measure it by marking it on my calendar at work. Discussing what I read and learn with close friends will help me achieve my goal of becoming more informed and more aware of my privilege and, in turn, will help me become a well-rounded justice-based socialist.
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