We cannot work toward eliminating racism from our society until we unpack and understand whiteness and its true impact. Naming whiteness doesn’t mean we don’t like white people, just as calling out sexism doesn’t mean that we hate all men. We simply need to recognize whiteness as a system that takes up space and rarely allows people of color to move forward or move up. It consumes too much air in Christianity, politics, culture, philosophy, and history. And white people spend too much time justifying, dismissing, or denying the problem and not enough time listening.
