Sublime

Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow.

no matter how woke you think you are—and someone will be telling you to check your privilege while you try to battle your own defensiveness as you figure out what the hell they are talking about.

People of color sometimes cope with abuse from individual Whites by hiding those individuals behind the generalized banner of Whiteness. “She acted that way,” we say, “because she is White.”

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

shadeism (a byproduct of racism creating a hierarchy within minority races based on skin tone)