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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/white-racism-threats.html

Yet just when I began to unmoor, a braver white America began to speak, to risk, to love. Perhaps for the first time, these white readers took off their masks, even if only for a moment, to hear me. Then again, perhaps they had already known about the difficulties involved in removing their masks, knowing how hard it is to avoid falling back on white innocence. They entered that space of risk and honesty where they dared to tell the truth about their whiteness. Thanks Professor Yancy for your thoughts, one woman wrote. The system is racist. As a white woman, I am responsible to dismantle that system as well as the attitudes in me that growing up in the system created. I am responsible for speaking out when I hear racist comments.

And the disagreeable mirror produced painful disclosures. Beautiful words, thoughtful words, and words that needed to be said. Thank you for holding up a mirror to my inner hate. A shared understanding of the complexity of white racism was staring back at me. Thank you. I am a white liberal/ardent backer of civil rights, but as you say, also a racist. Godspeed, and thank you for helping to keep me honest. Or I have been living this past year with the growing understanding that my white privilege is toxic. Or I would like to offer you a gift in return: A commitment to fully accept the racism (and sexism) that is embedded in me, acknowledge the privilege that comes with having been born a white American, try my best to be educated about the suffering my racism and privilege causes others.

In response to these positive responses, however, some will still insist, Their white history speaks louder than their words. But history, I say, is not fixed. And as human beings we are protean.

TL - "listening" when someone tells you about "whiteness" means accepting and repeating that simply being white means you are racist and that your privilege is toxic and harmful to those around you.

I'm adding the NY Times to my browser's block list. Piece of trash publication.
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