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
This is commitment work. This work is hard. There is no way to sugarcoat it. White supremacy is an evil. It is a system of oppression that has been designed to give you benefits at the expense of the lives of BIPOC, and it is living inside you as unconscious thoughts and beliefs. The process of examining it and dismantling it will necessarily be pa
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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.
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
white silence is violence. It actively protects the system. It says I am okay with the way things are because they do not negatively affect me and because I enjoy the benefits I receive with white privilege
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Audre Lorde said, “Revolution is not a one-time event.” Antiracism work is not a twenty-eight-day journey. It is a lifelong practice. This book presents a place to begin and to continue the work. But it requires your lifelong commitment to antioppression. This is not like reading a personal growth book, attending a spiritual retreat, or going to a
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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
WHY DO YOU NEED TO LOOK AT WHITE PRIVILEGE?
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
what exists within can do just as much, if not more, harm than what is spoken out loud. What lies within influences what comes out, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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. White supremacy is far from fringe. In white-centered societies and communities, it is the dominant paradigm that
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what is white supremacy?