It’s time to listen, learn and put whiteness under the microscope
It’s sad, and shameful, that it has taken the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in the USA, to ignite a ‘mass awakening’ among white people regarding the racism that is embedded so deeply within our societies – both in the US and here in the UK. As protests continue, demanding an end not just to police brutality but to the consistent devaluation of black lives, it is a time for us as white people to listen and to learn.
It is time for self-examination, too; for us to take a long, hard look at our positions, our practices and our privileges – on personal, political and professional levels. Instead of asking people of colour how we can do better, we need to do this work ourselves, educating ourselves on how we can be better allies in the anti-racist fight – beyond posting a black square on Instagram, and beyond this week.
It is time – and this is long overdue – for us white people to see ourselves as raced, for us to start to understand the construction of our whiteness; that right from the beginning, this construction has been used as a tool for domination; to understand the privileges and protections afforded to us by our whiteness; and that these come, as they have done throughout history, at the expense of people of colour. This is an important part of the anti-racist struggle.
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