Thread by @DrSamiSchalk

It’s so important to emphasize that rarely do white people recognize or admit that they are being racist. It’s antithetical to how they perceive themselves. This is because white folks are taught to understand themselves as neutral and to define racism as blatant hate.

https://twitter.com/mspackyetti/status/1372562298821357573

Rarely are white folks able to comprehend or be self-reflective about the ways white supremacy shapes their entire lives & behaviors. Yet people of color feel the racial bias, assumptions & projections in our interactions with white people daily.

For most white folks racism is unconscious, deeply entrenched, & unrecognizable in its various manifestations in part bc of the way the law has set up hate crimes to require clear evidence of racial hatred. White people think if they aren’t calling you slurs, they aren’t racist.

So even when white men murder Black people in church & Asian people at work, they will be treated with a level of care and personalized empathy that few POC have ever experienced outside of our own communities if ever.

The age of white supremacy has to end. And it requires white people to step aside in almost every arena of power & influence. Follow & support radical liberation-focused people of color. There’s work for white folks to do, but first you have to listen to us to do it well.