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• ‟ The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.

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• ‟ Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.

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• ‟ White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea of race.

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• ‟ The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

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• ‟ Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and experiences purported to be commonly shared by all but which are actually only consistently afforded to white people.

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• ‟ Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

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• ‟ In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out.

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• ‟ The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.

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• ‟ A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad - to a structural understanding.

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• ‟ Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

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• ‟ For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to maintain both our comfort and our positions in a racially inequitable society from which we benefit.

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• ‟ People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will.

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• ‟ Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do.

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• ‟ It became clear over time that white people have extremely low thresholds for enduring any discomfort associated with challenges to our racial worldviews.

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• ‟ We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering.

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• ‟ One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a good-bad proposition - that if we're good we can't be part of it, that being uncomfortable means you're a terrible person. We have to let go of that and understand it as a system we all live in.

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• ‟ While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.

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• ‟ As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.

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