In racial reconciliation, selective sight often means that White people enter antiracist spaces with serious deficiencies in racial knowledge. They often do not understand how the historical construction of whiteness implicates them; they are usually unaware of the material impact that racism has on the lives of people of color in their immediate contexts; and they frequently lack even rudimentary vocabulary to engage in sustained conversation about race. At the same time, however, their sense of superiority often makes them more confident in their own ill-informed opinions than they should
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