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“regardless of the false nature of racial categories, the concept of race holds great social force. Our society uses race in spite of some people’s disavowal and often treats us differentially as a result. Race has truly gotten under our skin, into our psyche, and lingers within the layers of our unconscious. To begin honestly, we must discuss what may be the most challenging aspect of any discussion of race. We must deal with the terms racist, racism, and systemic white supremacy. We must also confront the fact that some people might ask us to associate those words with our speech and actions.”
― Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
― Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
“Unfortunately, so many whites have trampled people of color as we ran away from our whiteness that many people of color are highly suspect when whites demonstrate an interest in their culture and participate in traditional ceremonies and practices or wear their cultural symbols and dress.”
― Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
― Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
“Cayce also links the ideas of being disconnected and superficial with the way white people deal with our U.S. history.
My theory about why we’re this way in America is, how can you possibly live in a country where for 200 years you’re enslaving a huge portion of your population and not have some kind of emotion? You have to put a lid on it. Otherwise, you couldn’t be human and stand it, right? So I think that in this country we’ve learned to cover the bad things with really pretty things and that we don’t show it when we fall apart.”
― Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
My theory about why we’re this way in America is, how can you possibly live in a country where for 200 years you’re enslaving a huge portion of your population and not have some kind of emotion? You have to put a lid on it. Otherwise, you couldn’t be human and stand it, right? So I think that in this country we’ve learned to cover the bad things with really pretty things and that we don’t show it when we fall apart.”
― Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
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