Ending White Supremacy Requires White People To Realize Black Liberation Isn’t A ‘Zero Sum Game’
America loves whiteness.
And that “love” is at the expense of everyone else in this country, especially Black folks.
“What white supremacy does is it automatically elevates and privileges whites, regardless of any other characteristic than whiteness,” says Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and New York Times best-selling author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
It’s evident that white privilege invades and exists in every space in the United States; from the racial wealth gap to where people can live, or whether or not they can vote, and how students are educated, just to name a few. Even if it appears subtle, whiteness and its advantages are very real.
-Jessica Moulite
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