#Whiteness

Daryl Sturgis✊🏽

darylsturgis

I think a lot of white liberals/ progressives who are grappling to understand how Trump can have approval ratings close to 50% during a botched pandemic response are missing the

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

A thread on the outrage (and worse) directed against my colleague Priya Gopal yesterday. First, the context: during a football match on Monday in which the players agreed to take

CEO Erick Hayden

CEOErickHayden

For a period of time beginning shortly after WWII, many American whites opted to downplay & ignore the negative behaviors & character traits of other races, convinced that this was

♚ King Hale

HaleTheeKing

Everytime conversations on colorism come up, I think about when my daddy connected colorism and sexual assault/coercion together to discuss with me when I was in middle school. One day

Maddie McClouskey

soundofmaddie

As long as the American theatre industry relies on classism to exist, we will continue to cycle through problematic white people's non-apologies from plucky personalities who love the works of

D.L. Mayfield

d_l_mayfield

I would be a pretty happy lady if I didn’t hear one more successful dude ever publicly whine about cancel culture ever again Let me tell you as someone desperate

Preston Mitchum, he/him

PrestonMitchum

Ma’Khia Bryant being killed by the Columbus Police Department at the time we were awaiting a #DerekChauvin verdict proves our exact point about why this case was a drop in

gemelx de ???? FREE THEM ALL!!

PopTart399

white men be like: as a heterosexual white man, I recognize that im privileged like bro shut up, obviously u don't bc u been sucking the air about of

Jeff Guhin

jeffguhin

So I'm fascinated by this thing some white conservatives do when talking about how everyone has a struggle so we shouldn't talk about white privilege or systemic racism: they list

Hari Ziyad

HariZiyad

This year, I’ve had a number of folk tell me they used to think I was too aggressive toward cops & capitalists & white folks, but now they are starting

Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧

thomaschattwill

The logic of capitalizing the B in black but not the W in white—it simply doesn’t hold. The idea that white does not describe a shared cultural history, but that

Jordan Sumbu

JordanSumbu

And internalized racism too. The ‘diverse blackness’ they try to prove that exists is always them showing off people who are white adjacent (mixed race) or black people (anomalies) born

Sara Manus

moto_librarian

Confession time, library friends. When I entered music librarianship, I believed that it was a calling. I believed that by virtue of my career, I was doing special, important work,

Austin Channing Brown

austinchanning

Y’all. I’m not saying this to be harsh. I just want to make sure those who are antiracist really understand... I get that #AhmaudArbery was doing what lots of people

Jewish Community Action

JCA_MN

THREAD: Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion around antisemitic statements from athletes and entertainers that are being referred to by some as “Black Antisemitism.” In

Kevin Coval

kevincoval

white supremacy is systemic & pervasive & sits in the core of the country, now & chronically. until we reeducate how we (whites) learn, the tropes of dehumanization will continue