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…the magic of w…
…the magic of white supremacy is that its presence is obscured by the focus on race. When a black teenager is unfairly profiled by police, we say it’s “because of the color of his skin,” which—as a...
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We need to reme…
We need to remember that, as powerful as it is to identify as people of color, black people face a unique set of oppressions that non-black people also perpetuate. And we need to recognize that, as...
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After a while y…
After a while you may want to respond to every request for a take on the day’s newest racist incident with nothing but a list of corresponding, pre-drafted truths, like a call-center script for talking...
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Frantz Fanon, excerpt from Black Skin, White Masks
There is a fact: White men consider themselves superior to black men. There is another fact: Black men want to prove to white men, at all costs, the richness of their thought, the equal value of their...
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James Baldwin, on white people
I will state flatly that the bulk of this country’s white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation. They have...
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Jay Dodd, on Darren Wilson and Whiteness
The absence of Officer Wilson’s indictment is consolidates a series of historic and systemic protections and managements of Whiteness and its fatal “fear” of Black bodies. Despite studies of...
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thefemmewithnoname: Trayvon was too old to be a child at 17. Tamir Rice is a ‘young man’ at 12. White supremacy has deemed black children extinct. (via Realistic Optimist)
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Walter Johnson, on witness credibility and white supremacy
One of the most durable paradoxes of white supremacy – the idea that those who are closest to an experience of oppression are its least credible witnesses. –Walter Johnson (via knowledge equals black...
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White cultural imperialist appropriation of black culture maintains white supremacy and is a constant threat to black liberation. —bell hooks, Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance (via KEW)
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I am afraid, or, 2017: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here
I am afraid on the basis of all of my identities. That fear is not just of Trump himself, but of unchecked Republican control of the executive and legislative branches of our government, and likely...
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