All of us who are white have been made to participate in and benefit from systemic racism whether we have chosen it or not, and in such as way that it is not possible to extricate ourselves and choose to no longer be a racist. If you are white, I am suggesting that you are racist because you are part of a racial group in which everyone participates and benefits from white power and privilege. Your imprisonment is that you have no power to stop being a beneficiary of racism. Your imprisonment is that you have no power not to be a racist.

Joseph R. Barndt, Understanding and Dismantling Racism (via darkjez)

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∞  January 18, 2012 at 12:24pm
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