White Fragility Digest #1: 13 May 2018

[MrScorpio]

42. My suggestion? OK...

First, identify the problem. That’s pretty easy, because the problem is white supremacy.

Second, figure out who has power over white supremacy. That should be obvious: It certainly isn’t non-white people and definitely not black people. The only people who have any real power over white supremacy are those for whom it serves, who controls and created it... White people in this country.

Third, white people in this country are going to all need to understand that being the unearned and unwarranted recipients of white supremacy is their problem and it’s up to them to both be self-aware of the problem and brave enough to undo its power structure, because it’s ultimately self-destructive.

Basically, it’s up to white people to be sick and tired of other white peoples’ racist bullshit. White people need to stop rewarding white supremacist outcomes.

Lastly, if you see some white person in the midst of attempting to exercise their white privileges over a person of color, as the other white person on site, use your own white privilege to put that other white person in their place.

As another poster rightly said, stop expecting the oppressed to defeat their oppressors with love.