Wypipo

Wypipo

White people cannot be trusted.  
Trump won every category of white voter in 2016.  
Every category.

The problem is us and fixing it means changing ourselves.  This will be a lot of work and difficult conversations. I’m not talking about screaming at people at marches.  I’m thinking about confronting the casual racism in ourselves and among our own families and friends. It’s exhausting.  It can ruin dinner and upset your parents. It’s the least we can do. A small sacrifice of our energy and comfort to right a horrible wrong.  Racism continues to exist because we accept and perpetuate it.  

The way this happens personally is for us to define ‘what is a racist idea’.  And then when we express those ideas, for us to acknowledge that the idea is a racist idea.  I’m not going to say it anymore. I’m going to think differently. I’m going to strive to be antiracist. (I. X. Kendi, excerpted from 2019 interview)