Yet the way you often act goes beyond white privilege. It’s white privilege extra, white privilege on steroids, white privilege with a side of large fries. It’s white entitlement.

You’ve amassed wealth through a system of white supremacy. You have literally made money on the backs of BIPOC. Stolen land. Stolen labor. Stolen ideas. So the notion that you want to “give” or “help” as a way of doing something good is all part of this myth

Erasing your white power is a prerequisite to being colorblind, and colorblindness is a form of racism. If you don’t see color, you don’t see your white power, and if you don’t see your white power, you don’t see your racism. And if you don’t see your racism, you cannot dismantle it. If you cannot dismantle it, you are actively supporting it.

Your need for perfection, in fact, makes it impossible to engage in antiracism work.

Because you so greatly benefit from your whiteness, you work tirelessly to protect it. In a white supremacy culture like ours, not working tirelessly to dismantle it is the equivalent of working tirelessly to protect it. In other words, not acting is acting.

White supremacy means that you—white people—are raised to see yourselves as the default. In your white cocoon, you see your white experience as the default lived experience. The rest of us have racial and ethnic identities: Black people, Indigenous people, Indian people, Mexican people, Chinese people. People of color.

There is white supremacy in mundane, everyday expressions. Black cats, black magic, black sheep in the family. All bad. White lies, better than regular lies. Even “white trash.” You don’t say “Black trash” or “brown trash,” ostensibly because it would be redundant in your white mind. When you say “white trash,” what you are saying is trash is by de

So we are asked to explain your violence against us to you, which is traumatizing.

Not only is white woman exceptionalism false, but in it lies the implication that if you are the exception, other white women around you are the rule. You believe that you’re better than them. How can that be healthy? How can that be sisterhood?