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@mattmcgorry : “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo (foreword by @michaelericdyson) # Highly recommended read. For white liberals and progressives, most of us have great disdain for racism. Most of us were taught that racism is bad, and tend to think that only the worst of people commit acts of racism or have beliefs of white supremacy/superiority. The problem is, every single person has prejudice (yes even people of color, although that is often brought up as a deflection by white folks from thinking about our own bias and the work that we should be doing as white people). This prejudice is the natural result of growing up in a society where systemic racism results in white people always having been valued above people of color in ways that are mostly invisible to us on the conscious level. This is how socialization works*, and none of us are capable of fully escaping it. # What we can do, is work to unlearn our socialized racial prejudice. But this takes work. Intentional and oftentimes uncomfortable work, and the ability to move past our defensiveness that takes a wide range of forms. Too often, white fragility prevents us from understanding HOW we are inevitably going to enact and/or perpetuate racism because when we are called out, we spend all of our energy defending our intentions or the belief that we “don’t see race” or that we “don’t care if you’re Black, white, pink, blue, or polka-dotted.” This shuts down and derails the conversation (in its most benign forms), and we get to return to racial equilibrium (which always involves white comfort and superiority). And then we don’t get to learn. # Ingrained and unconscious racism is not just something that Trump supporters need to unlearn...WHITE LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES MUST UNLEARN IT AS WELL...YES, EVEN YOU. Without that understanding and without doing the work, we will never be capable of being the best allies we can be, and both systemic and individual racism will