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- Nov 07, 2020
White Quotes
Honest reflections on identity and race.
This collection gathers personal reflections on racial identity, including memories of growing up in a mostly separate community and the ongoing search for roles that were written with a different actor in mind. It connects to broader conversations in our Black quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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.
- 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.
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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.
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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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
- 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.
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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.
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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.
- 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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.
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- Nov 07, 2020