RACIST CONDITIONING MEANS THAT THE SAME WHITE PERSON CAN MAKE BOTH STATEMENTS AND NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE DUALITY

RACIST CONDITIONING MEANS THAT THE SAME WHITE PERSON CAN MAKE BOTH STATEMENTS AND NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE DUALITY


"For those of us white people living in this time and place, who think that in apartheid South Africa we would have actively opposed white supremacist rule,

who think that if we'd been alive during the civil rights era we'd have been Freedom Riders or at least supported the sit-ins,

if you would have actively condemned the Birmingham church bombing as a terrorist act... don't sleep on this moment we live in now in which you too are being called to take a stand."

ME: I currently have a white gaze ban on my page as it is an indicator that this is not a safe place to commiserate and grow.

Them: “Was an ally. Bye!”

Denial: it’s a helluva drug!