White supremacy is an ideology, a paradigm, an institutional system, and a worldview that you have been born into by virtue of your white privilege.

Your desire to be seen as good can actually prevent you from doing good, because if you do not see yourself as part of the problem, you cannot be part of the solution.

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.

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

Science has proven that the concept of race is not a biological fact but rather a social concept.

HOW DOES WHITE PRIVILEGE SHOW UP? Peggy McIntosh’s list of fifty examples of white privilege is a great place to start to see how white privilege shows up.

Tone policing in all these places is the constant judgment—or threat of judgment—on how BIPOC express themselves.

day 1 YOU AND WHITE PRIVILEGE

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