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February 17 - February 23, 2025
Somewhere along the way, I picked up the unspoken belief that I was made for white people. That might sound weird, but it’s true. Much of my teaching (and learning) managed to revolve around whiteness—white privilege, white ignorance, white shame, the things white folks “needed� in order to believe racial justice is a worthy cause. Movie discussions on Do the Right Thing or Crash often focused on the white characters, and “privilege walks� focused on making white people recognize the unearned advantages they’d gotten at birth.
