"And here's where I think we misunderstand privilege, cause we act like privilege is something that is what people should have, right? You shouldn't have white privilege, but that's not because you shouldn't have the privilege of feeling like you can walk down the street without being shot by the cops. You shouldn't have white privilege because everybody should have that privilege."
-Heather McGhee
(Armchair Expert @ 30:51)
"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right." -Rosa Parks |
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
"...ultimately, racism is a white problem. We created it, we willed it, and we ultimately benefit from it whether we want to or not. There's no neutral place."
-Robin DiAngelo
(Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan, "Ep. 121: White People" @ 1:04:35)
"This right here, the realization that we may be a part of the reason why the deck is stacked against others, that we may have been contributing to it for years without our knowledge, is why the concept of privilege is so threatening to so many."
-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want To Talk About Race
"If your white friends aren't antiracist, you don't have any white friends." -Taylor Nolan (Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan, "Ep. 121: White People" @ 1:11:47) |
"Equality only feels like oppression when you've had privilege." -Taylor Nolan (Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan, "Ep. 121: White People" @ 10:49) |
"You [white people] will always be challenged to be better. Always. Don't ever think or expect the work to be done."
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"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We want to know that if we do 'a' we can expect 'b,' and that those who never get 'b' have never done 'a.' The concept of privilege makes the world seem less safe. We want to protect our vision of a world that is fair and kind and predictable. That reaction is natural, but it doesn't make the harmful effects of unexamined privilege less real." -Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want To Talk About Race |
"Every day you are given opportunities to make the world better, by making yourself a little uncomfortable and asking, 'who doesn't have this same freedom or opportunity that I'm enjoying now?' These daily interactions are how systems of oppression are maintained, but with awareness, they can be how we tear those systems down." -Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want To Talk About Race |
"When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change."
-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want To Talk About Race