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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad - to a structural understanding.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have no idea how my race shapes me, I am probably not going to be open to any feedback about how your race shapes you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to maintain both our comfort and our positions in a racially inequitable society from which we benefit.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.
- Erupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea of race.
- Deeply
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- Nov 07, 2020
White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.
- Objectivity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no human objectivity.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and experiences purported to be commonly shared by all but which are actually only consistently afforded to white people.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It became clear over time that white people have extremely low thresholds for enduring any discomfort associated with challenges to our racial worldviews.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day, in workshops all over the country. That has allowed me to observe very predictable patterns. And one of those patterns is this inability to tolerate any kind of challenge to our racial reality.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular acts, and if we're good, moral people, we can't be racist - we don't engage in those acts.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of color give us feedback. We have to build our stamina to just be humble and bear witness to the pain we've caused.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As white people in this society, we are socialized from the time that we're born to see ourselves as superior, to see white people and things associated white people as superior. At the same time, I'm encouraged to never admit to that. I'm taught that racism is very bad and immoral.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a good-bad proposition - that if we're good we can't be part of it, that being uncomfortable means you're a terrible person. We have to let go of that and understand it as a system we all live in.
- Bias
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think our everyday coded language around 'good neighborhoods' and 'bad neighborhoods' is what allows for tremendous violence to happen... When you label a neighborhood 'bad' and avoid it, then you don't know and don't see what goes on there. And there's no human face to interrupt that narrative.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.
- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do used to be called 'diversity training,' then 'cultural competency' and now, 'anti-racism.' These terms are really useful for periods of time, but then they get coopted, and people build all this baggage around them, and you have to come up with new terms, or else people won't engage.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020