White supremacy makes people with white privilege fear their whiteness being decentered because they have been taught to believe that if they are not centered, then they are being marginalized and oppressed. But decentering whiteness does not mean becoming inferior to BIPOC. This idea simply feeds into the hierarchical paradigm that drives white supremacy—that one race must be above the others. Decentering whiteness means learning to stop upholding whiteness as the norm and instead learning to live and operate in a more inclusive way.
