Racism

We must be willing to exchange comfort for racial consciousness and to be more curious than critical or dispirited. If I didn’t belong to you, I wouldn’t have written this book. If you didn’t belong to me, you wouldn’t be reading it. I’m you, and you are me—you just don’t know that yet. We are here, sharing these pages, to embrace our membership in

racist White people unleash on Black people

This is the difference between racism and prejudice. There is an unattributed definition of racism that defines it as prejudice plus power.

James Baldwin wrote, “It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.

The privilege of whiteness means that one’s day-to-day life is not impacted by skin color,

Someone reproducing inequity through permanently assisting an overrepresented racial group into wealth and power is entirely different than someone challenging that inequity by temporarily assisting an underrepresented racial group into relative wealth and power until equity is reached.

maybe we hurt and hate others out of that pain if it isn’t tended to.