Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

by Emmanuel Acho

going to take all of us—you, me, everybody—to achieve the dream. You are going to have to learn how to move beyond being not racist, to being antiracist (a

(Here’s one: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html.)

What about poor white people, how can they still be ‘privileged’? What about rich and powerful black people? Still un-privileged?”

And white privilege is about the word white, not rich. It’s having advantage built into your life. It’s not saying your life hasn’t been hard; it’s saying your skin color hasn’t contributed to the difficulty in your life.

Take political action whenever and wherever you can, voting for and holding accountable local and national officials, signing petitions, peacefully protesting when needed. Dismantling systemic racism is nothing short of dismantling white supremacy. It’s going to take a herculean effort by all of us to tear it down.

The feeling of defensiveness is white fragility, and the way you hit back, with accusations like reverse racism, is white talk.