Not so long ago, when I spoke to audiences outside of my home turf of academia, I felt uncomfortable naming whiteness and white supremacy. I worried that people would not understand the terms or that I would be seen as too radical in my politics.
A lot has changed, however, in the past five years. We have witnessed major shift in our awareness of white supremacy, an ideology that has permeated our consciousnesses and structures for centuries — and one that continues to bear influence on every aspect of our lives. We have all come to internalize white supremacist outlooks, from our whitewashed standards for beauty, to our assumptions about whom to consider as authority figures, to the biases we carry on whom to fear and whom to trust.
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