An intersectional understanding of racial reconciliation rejects outright the lie that reconciliation is about relationship. It instead centers upon dismantling White supremacy and White power structures. This understanding requires far more of White people than making a Black friend; indeed, it requires more of White people than it does people of color. But can the people who embody the very construct—whiteness—responsible for racism really be expected to dismantle it? Or does White racial identity pose an insurmountable obstacle to racial justice? I turn my attention to those questions in
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