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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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  • 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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  • Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.
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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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  • Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.
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  • As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and interrupting racism in our lives.
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  • You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.
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  • This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'
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  • While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.
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  • One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.
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  • Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.
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