Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
You cannot dismantle what you cannot see. You cannot challenge what you do not understand.
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Tone policing also occurs when you judge BIPOC for not conforming to white norms of communication (e.g., being too loud, using African American Vernacular English, or speaking in ways that do not conform with Standard English).
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Building the racial stamina required to challenge the racist status quo is thus a critical part of our work as white people. Rushing ahead to solutions—especially when we have barely begun to think critically about the problem—bypasses the necessary personal work and reflection and distances us from understanding our own complicity. In fact, racial
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legal changes in civil rights, though extremely important, do not change the deeply held social construct that there are biologically different races and that one race is superior to the others. And as you will see throughout this book, the belief in this social construct plays out at the unconscious level, affecting thoughts and behaviors that hav
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White supremacy is not just an attitude or a way of thinking. It also extends to how systems and institutions are structured to uphold this white dominance.
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
in a racist and patriarchal society, I would be treated differently. I would not be rewarded the same for the same effort. And she wanted me to know that though this was not fair or right, it was (and still is), sadly, the way things were.
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
You will have to learn to wean yourself off the addiction to instant gratification and instead develop a consciousness for doing what is right even if nobody ever thanks you for it.
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
what is white supremacy?
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
People often think that white supremacy is a term that is only used to describe far-right extremists and neo-Nazis. However, this idea that white supremacy only applies to the so-called “bad ones” is both incorrect and dangerous, because it reinforces the idea that white supremacy is an ideology that is only upheld by a fringe group of white people
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