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galen  ·  3019 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear White America

I feel like you're misunderstanding the comment I replied to. Yancy is not saying that you think or act in accordance with the opinion that other races are inferior. All he's asking you to recognize is that you're complicit in a society where white people have advantages due to minorities being disadvantaged. This is a case of different definitions of racists/racism.

Yes, telling you that you hate black people just because you're white is racist. But asking you to recognize that your skin color affords you advantages over people of color is anti-racist: the first step to dismantling structures of racism (or second-generation bias, whatever) is recognition of their existence and of our obligation, as their unjust beneficiaries, to dismantle them.

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