Silencing White Noise Quotes

“Whiteness estranges a person from the gift of living in community, with the capacity to connect with oneself, others, and the divine. White supremacy is a form of self-exile from one’s humanity, God, and other human beings.”
― Willie Dwayne Francois III, Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race

“The doctrine of Whiteness entails the belief that White people enjoy (1) an exceptional ancestry that legitimates a right to dominate and control, (2) primary ownership of the meaning of humanity and Americanness, (3) a racial hierarchy that perceives the other as inherently dangerous and inferior, (4) mythic social innocence regarding America’s racial tragedy, and (5) systemic and structural advantages due utterly to skin color.”
― Willie Dwayne Francois III, Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race