White Privilege Quotes

“there are NO voiceless people, only those who do not have an audience.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“help fellow whites to understand their power and privilege. Too many of us, unaware of our race and its effects, believe that “race” belongs to someone else.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“True integration involves being open to the other. In a healthy relationship, your story impacts my story and vice versa. We embrace and are changed by each other, and what emerges is something new.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“be effective allies, white folk must give up control of the agenda and selection of which leaders we are willing to work with—shedding the need to control the players and the outcomes.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“In my attempt to be an Ally I had assumed the Voice of the people and presumed that I knew the need. Rev.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“I was there to go where they asked and to do what they requested.  I was one additional body to speak truth to power.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“the role of an Ally: to use my resources to increase the audience of those often unheard and silenced by racism.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“I had heard all of the statistics on life expectancy and have seen the graphs on health disparities but I had never considered the psychological health of People of Color and the diminishment of the quality of life due to fear and oppression.  The difference in life expectancy between Black and White people is 4.9 years”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“the professional football team in Washington, D.C. (I remain a diehard fan of the burgundy and gold but REFUSE to say the team name.)”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“Many credit the G.I. Bill with creating the great American middle class. But we need to put a big footnote here. Although this was a great welfare bonus for white G.I.’s, it was largely denied to black G.I.’s. Southern congressmen insisted that “agricultural laborers” be excluded before they gave their needed support to pass the measure. The vast majority of blacks were employed as agricultural workers.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“Columbus and his son began the trans-Atlantic slave trade by sending Arawak slaves to Europe.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

“It is the NOT seeing things through the lens of race that makes privilege invisible to whites.”
― Traci Blackmon, White Privilege: Let's Talk - A Resource for Transformational Dialogue