“White racists do not want to define racial hierarchy or policies that yield racial inequities as racist. To do so would be to define their ideas and policies as racist. Instead, they define policies not rigged for White people as racist. Ideas not centering White lives are racist. Beleaguered White racists who can’t imagine their lives not being the focus of any movement respond to “Black Lives Matter” with “All Lives Matter.” Embattled police officers who can’t imagine losing their right to racially profile and brutalize respond with “Blue Lives Matter.” RacismPoliceBlack Lives MatterWhitesWhite PeopleAll Lives MatterRacist PoliciesRacist IdeasBlue Lives Matter Book:How to Be an Antiracist Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“The only thing wrong with White people is when they embrace racist ideas and policies and then deny their ideas and policies are racist. This is not to ignore that White people have massacred and enslaved millions of indigenous and African peoples, colonized and impoverished millions of people of color around the globe as their nations grew rich, all the while producing racist ideas that blame the victims. This is to say their history of pillaging is not the result of the evil genes or cultures of White people. There’s no such thing as White genes. We must separate the warlike, greedy, bigoted, and individualist cultures of modern empire and racial capitalism (more on that later) from the cultures of White people. They are not one and the same, as the resistance within White nations shows, resistance admittedly often tempered by racist ideas.” RacismWhitesWhite PeopleRacistsRacesRacist PoliciesRacist Ideas Book:How to Be an Antiracist Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Of course, ordinary White people benefit from racist policies, though not nearly as much as racist power and not nearly as much as they could from an equitable society, one where the average White voter could have as much power as superrich White men to decide elections and shape policy.” PowerRacismEquityElectionsWhitesWhite PeoplePoliciesRacist PoliciesRacist Ideas Book:How to Be an Antiracist Source: How to Be an Antiracist