There’s no pill you can take, no single thread or blog post you can read, that will magically deprogram all the ways your whiteness has conditioned you to ignore, enable, or reinforce systems of oppression. There’s a lot of white people who think this work should be easy.

This shit is hard. You’ve been raised from birth in a system that tells you in countless deeply insidious ways that you’re a better person because you’re white. You won’t be able to unlearn those lies in an afternoon.

The first step is acknowledging that these systems exist in the first place. The second step is recognizing that you’ve been conditioned by those systems as well. The next million steps are alternating the work between dismantling the system, and deprogramming your own biases.

You’ll never not be White. Not because it’s a biological reality of your genetic code, but because it’s ingrained in the culture that raised you. That poison is in your system, and the best you can do is make accommodations in yourself to mitigate harm.

If this is hard to hear, I get that. But it’s the truth.

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