Racism

Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.

In a white supremacist society, such as the United States, white privilege is the unearned benefit one incurs from having white skin. Therefore, if you are white, you have white privilege and, in wielding and enjoying that privilege, you are inherently upholding white supremacy.

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist

One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist.

Because it’s a many-headed hydra, you have to be careful about the white people you trust when it comes to discussing race and racism.

We need to decolonize our:

• Metaphors

• Languange

• Culture

• Governance

• Habits

• Worldviews

• Time

• Saviourism

Going beyond blame and shame. From appropriation to appreciation.

Operating from emptiness. Beginners mind & non-categorization.

The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.

minor feelings are not generated from major change but from lack of change, in particular, structural racial and economic change. Rather than using racial trauma as a dramatic stage for individual growth, the literature of minor feelings explores the trauma of a racist capitalist system that keeps the individual in place.