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I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

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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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White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.

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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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White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

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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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Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.

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I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.

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The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: September 8th, 1956

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