Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

by Ruth King

For the next week, I will stop judging the media and notice what I feel in the absence of judging. • For the next three months, I will only spend money if it is absolutely necessary and notice how it feels to want something without having it. • For the next week, I will not offer advice unless I am asked. • For the next two hours, I will allow myself to feel the pain in my lower back without hating that it is here.

Dear White People: No one is asking you to apologize for your ancestors. We are asking you to dismantle the system of oppression they built that you maintain and benefit from. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, author and radio host

When white nationalists are the only whites talking about white group identity, it can force other whites to avoid claiming whiteness out of a fear of association.