So like I know a lot of my followers aren't SPORTS people like I am and aren't in the habit of listening to sports radio programs at whatever-the-frig time it is in the US like I am so I'm gonna summarize something @clintonyates said on @MartySmithESPN & @ESPNMcGee 's show

Clinton Yates was asked what us white people can actually do and he said, essentially: talk to other white people.

Conversations about race are so easily avoided in all-white spaces. When we're with our families, our friends, our social groups we can avoid race entirely

That's a privilege; in fact, it's one of the biggest privileges of being white in the US--that we white people can go about our lives without having to think about race at all because we consider ourselves "the default." We don't HAVE a race, we're white!!

This is why some of us whites get really, really mad when we're called white btw. Because calling us "white" means we actually do, y'know, have a race and thus we actually have to be part of conversations about race.

Anyway, the point Yates was making is we have to force these conversations among families/friends/church groups/school groups/book clubs/whatever. Whatever all-white spaces we occupy. We have to talk about race if we're going to actually make a lasting difference

We need to talk to our kids too, white ppl. We have to get our kids used to talking about race. We have to talk to them about things like white privilege, police violence, and white supremacy.

Black kids don't have the luxury of not thinking about race.

But like, we have to force conversations, white people. We have to recognize how insulated we are from the need to acknowledge race and we have to burst that bubble wherever it exists. We have to make talking about race a thing we do all the time in white spaces.

We can't rely on black people to come into white spaces; that's not safe for them and it's just exerting the power of whiteness, passing off the labor of ending white supremacy onto its victims.

This is our responsibility, white people. This is our job.

We gotta make talking about race a thing we do in white spaces. We gotta realize that we allow our whiteness to shield us from hard discussions & then stop allowing it

also you should consider following Clinton Yates who is super interesting even if you don't care about sports.