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"For white people living in North America learning to be antiracist is a re-education process. We must unlearn our thorough racist conditioning to re-educate and re-condition ourselves as antiracists. There is scant social or political encouragement for this journey of re-education. We are constantly tempted to detour off course by the racist propaganda of society and our own guilt and denial. In the face of society’s and our own resistance, sustaining the will to continue this journey takes bold and stubborn effort. This journey sends us into unfamiliar territory. No white person has ever lived in a non-racist North America. We were never taught the skills of anti-racist living. Indeed, we were carefully taught the opposite: how to maintain our white privilege. Racism, the system of oppression (of people of color) and advantage (for white people) depends on the collusion and cooperation of white people for its perpetuation." pps.k12.or.us/files/district-leadership/Detour_Spotting_For_White_Anti_Racists_Jona_Olsson.pdf
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:15:13 +0000

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