Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

you cannot change your white skin color to stop receiving these privileges, just like BIPOC cannot change their skin color to stop receiving racism. But what you can do is wake up to what is really going on. I invite you to challenge your complicity in this system and work to dismantle it within yourself and the world.

Reflective Journaling Prompts 1.In what ways do you hold white privilege? Study the list from Peggy McIntosh and reflect on your own daily life. Make a list of the different ways you hold white privilege in your personal life. 2.What negative experiences has your white privilege protected you from throughout your life? 3.What positive experiences h

Despite our differences in skin color, hair texture, and other physical traits, genetically, you and I are largely the same. However, because race is a deeply held social construct and because of the existence of white supremacy, you and I are not treated the same. You hold white privilege. I do not. And that makes a world of difference.

It is important to understand that white privilege is separate from but can intersect with class privilege, gender privilege, sexuality privilege, age privilege, able-bodied privilege, or any other type of privilege.

WHY DO YOU NEED TO LOOK AT WHITE PRIVILEGE?

Race is a social concept, but that does not make it imaginary when it comes to the very real consequences it has for BIPOC in their daily lives in the presence of white supremacy.

We must look directly at the ways in which this racist ideology of white supremacy, this idea that white equals better, superior, more worthy, more credible, more deserving, and more valuable actively harms anyone who does not own white privilege. If you are willing to dare to look white supremacy right in the eye and see yourself reflected back, y

You cannot dismantle what you cannot see. You cannot challenge what you do not understand.

WHAT IS WHITE PRIVILEGE?