So You Want to Talk About Race

I had started to see myself, and once you start to see yourself, you cannot pretend anymore.

Even if we were to flip a switch today and end all racism and racial oppression, millions of people of color would still be disadvantaged by racial oppression of yesterday, and that would need to be addressed with policies like affirmative action that seek to replace opportunities previously denied unless we feel like leaving an entire generation i

Take some time to really dig deep through all of the advantages that you have that others may not. Write them down.

We can get every person in America to feel nothing but love for people of color in their hearts, and if our systems aren’t acknowledged and changed, it will bring negligible benefit to the lives of people of color.

You have to get over the fear of facing the worst in yourself. You should instead fear unexamined racism.

Originally coined in 1966 by sociologist William Peterson to profile the socioeconomic success of Japanese Americans, the myth of the “model minority” has become a collection of stereotypes about Asian Americans, presenting them as an “ideal minority group” in the eyes of White Supremacy. Included in these stereotypes are presumptions of academic a

I don’t know how to describe what those two days were like for me except to say that I hadn’t known before then that there was so much air to breathe.

If I hit you but do not intend to hit you, that is not a misunderstanding about whether or not I hit you.

So what is tone policing? Tone policing is when someone (usually the privileged person) in a conversation or situation about oppression shifts the focus of the conversation from the oppression being discussed to the way it is being discussed. Tone policing prioritizes the comfort of the privileged person in the situation over the oppression of the