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MARGO ADAIR
FROM THE
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UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT RACE AND CLASS MAKES US ALL LOOKING TRUE FOR THOSE OF US OF EUROPEAN DESCENT THIS IS ESPECIALLY LEVEL WE ARE PAINFUL PAST AT SOME AT THESE ISSUES REMINDS US OF IN OUR LIVES HAS THAT WHATEVER COMFORT AND SECURITY WE HAVE AWARE TALKING BEEN
AND THE BY THE GENOCIDE OF NATIVE PEOPLES THE OF THEIR LAND THE ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS STEALING LABOR IN OF NORTHERN MEXICO THE USE OF CHINESE ILLEGAL ANNEXATION THEM THE RIGHT TO OWN LAND AND BUILDING THE WEST WHILE DENYING WHEN THE ABUSE OF ALL WORKING PEOPLE THESE TRUTHS ARE TROUBLING
MADE
POSSIBLE
WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO
OF GUILT FOR SITUATION
THINK
ABOUT
THEM
THEY CREATE
VAGUE FEELING
WE DIDNT
CREATE
AND
FEEL POWERLESS TO
CHANGE
AND GO ON WITH OUR FOR MOST OF US ITS EASIER TO IGNORE THESE ISSUES NOT ONLY KEEPS U5 FROM WE DONT REALIZE DENYING OUR PAST LIVES OF OUR HISTORY BUT IT ALSO HIDES FROM US UNDERSTANDING THE HORROR THESE INJUS THE LIVES AND VALUES OF THOSE WHO STRUGGLED AGAINST FUTURE NEW THEIR LEGACY POINTS THE WAY TO CREATING TICES RACE
AS
LEGAL IS
POWER OPERATES ON MANY LEVELSTHE POLITICAL THE INSTITUTIONAL THE PERSONAL POWER IS NOT AN ABSTRACTION IT IS GIVEN SHAPE AND TEXTURE BY THE LAND THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CULTURE TO RESTORE OUR
CONNECTION TO NATURE ENABLING US TO LIVE IN
WAS
ESTABLISHED
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TO SEPARATE THE
WHO UNITED SERVANTS OF EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN HERITAGE TO THIS TIME MOST AFRICANS AND PRIOR COLONIAL ELITE
ABLE TO LOOK TOWARD OF SERVITUDE
AND ONE ANOTHER WE HAVE TO LOOK AT HOWPOWER POLITICS AND PLACE HAVE WOVEN TROUBLED HISTORY FOR US TO INHERIT THE HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES
RAISES
EUROPEANS WERE
FROM THE
SLAVERY
HARSHNESS
THE
HOWEVER
FUNDAMENTAL
QUESTIONS
OF
HUMAN
IDENTITY
AND
POINTS
TO THE NECESSITY
OF CREATING
THE HONORING
AND
OUR
CONNECTION TO PLACE
POSSIBLE
AS
WE
REGAIN
FOR AFRICANS PERMANENT CONDITION COULD WORK INDENTURED EUROPEANS AT LEAST IN THEORY OTHER HAND IN THE LEGAL SYS INSTITUTIONALIZED THEIR WAY OUT WHITE PEOPLE AS LESS CLAIM TO FUTURE WHILE AFRICANS WERE CAST TEM WERE GIVEN TO PRIVILEGES OF WHITE MEANT GIVING THAN HUMAN THE CREATION
BECAME
ON
THE
IN
THE
US THE OPENING
OF OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE
OUR STANDARD
SOME
LOGICAL
WHILE
DENYING
SOCIAL
THEM
TO OTHERS WITH
THE JUSTIFICATION
OF BIO
AND
INFERIORITY
HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY RACISM RACISM IS WOVEN INTO WITH PEOPLE OUR EVERY ASSUMPTION WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE ENGAGING IS OF US JUST AS SEXISM DOESNT EVAPORATE WHEN OF IT
OF LIVING
RESOURCES ATTAINED
AS THE RESULT
OF RACIST POLICIES
MADE UPWARD
COLOR
WOMEN ARE
OUR
PLAY IN
EX
PART IN NOT PRESENT RACE AND CLASS ARE DEEPLY ENTWINED BECAUSE OF THE CENTRAL ROLE THAT RACE AND CLASS
THE ECONOMIC
AND
SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
OF OUR COUNTRY
WE
WHITE PRIVILEGE PEOPLE OF COLOR PROVIDED AN EXCLUSIVE MOBILITY WORK NEEDED THE LABOR FOR THE MOST BACKBREAKING AND DANGEROUS AN UNDERCLASS FROM WHICH FOR DEVELOPING THE COUNTRY THUS FORMING
ALL
WHITES
BENEFITTED
NEED TO UNRAVEL
HOWTHEY
MEANS
OF CONTROL
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OF OUR COUNTRY
THIS
IS
WE
CLASSES
IT
LOOK
DOWN UPON
POSITIONS OF
OR
IG
MEN WHO
PRECISELY
DEDICATED BECAUSE
THEIR
LIVES
TO THE
STRUGGLE OF OUR
FOR JUSTICE
IS
WEST
IT
IS
THIS
VERY ACTIVITY
POWER
EVERY AMERICAN MOST OF US ARE UNAWARE IT KNOWS THE SONG AMAZING GRACE YET SLAVE SHIP WHO BECAME LEADING WAS WRITTEN BY CAPTAIN OF OR THE NAMES OF WENDELL PHILLIPS EEW OF US KNOW ABOLITIONIST AND SPEAKING DROVE THE WHOSE WRITING WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON WHILE WE ARE ISSUE OF SLAVERY INTO THE CENTER OF AMERICAN POLITICS LEARN ABOUT THE TAUGHT THE NAMES OF CIVIL WAR BATTLES WE NEVER SOUTHERNERS WHO VOTED AGAINST SECESSION IN ALABAMA THIRTYNINE THINGS THAT THEY ALMOST
POWER
TO CHANGE
AND PRIVILEGE THE UPPER CLASSES INDULGE IN THE FANTASY THAT THEY IT IS THEY WHOCREATE ARE NOT THE ONES WHO ARE RACIST WHEN IN FACT INEQUITIES UPON WHICH MAINTAIN THE INSTITUTIONAL THE POLICIES THAT
THEIR
WEALTH DEPENDS
THE
COLONIAL
ELITE
CREATED
WHITE
AS AN IDENTITY
OF SUPERIORITY
OF THE LOWER CLASSES WERE TO FOR PEOPLE OF EUROPEAN DESCENT IF THOSE WAS TO DENY OF UPWARD MOBILITY LOOK ABOVE THEM THE PREREQUISITE THEIR
OWN
PARTICULAR
CULTURAL
HERITAGE
FAMILY
TIES
AND
LOYALTY
TO
HOWMUCH OF THIS WAS RESULT PERCENT OF THE WHITE MEN VOTED WOMENS ORGANIZATION THAT OF TACTICS LIKE THOSE OF THE ANTISLAVERY
WOULD RING MEETING HOUSES BEATING THE SPEECHES OF PROSECESSIONISTS ON POTS AND PANS TO DROWN OUT
NO
IDEA THAT THEY WERE JUST THE SAME AS THOSE PLACE TRADING THESE FOR THE ABLEBODIED AND ON THE TOPWHITE MALE PROTESTANT HETEROSEXUAL FINNS OR SWEDES THEY WERE SERIOUS NO LONGER GERMANS ITALIANS
IMMIGRANTS
HAD
TO WAIT
THEIR
TURN TO
NOR IS IT TO SAY THAT ALL AMERICANS OF EUROPEAN DESCENT WERE OF THE SAME CLASS IN FACT THOSE OF THE WORKING MIDDLE AND OWNING
CLASSES
AS THEY RIDICULE AND DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN WHITE AND THE UNDERCLASS THIS IS THE WONDER THE SPACE TRADED IN FOR PIECE OF THE BREADING OF AMERICA CULTURAL TIES WERE
FI
BE
HAVE PLAYED
OF
SIGNIFICANTLY
DIFFERENT
ROLES
IN
MAINTAINING
AMERICAN
THIS
PIE
THE OWNING CLASS TO IMPROVE THEIR LOT LOWER CLASS WHITES WERE THE ONES WHO KILLED NATIVE AMERICANS AND MEXICANS IN THE MOVE WEST THEY ALSO WERE THE OVERSEERS ADMINI THE INSTITUTION
RACISM SINCE
THE BEGINNING
PUNISHMENT TO ANY AFRICAN WHO REBELLED PEOPLE IN THE LOWER CLASS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TERRORISM AND RANDOM VIO THE SYSTEM THESE WHITES POWERLESS LENCE NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN SENSE OF PERSONAL POWER IN RELATION TO THE POWER BROKERS GAINED
STERING
TREMENDOUS COST GIVING UP OUR ETHNIC WE WE LOSE OUR EMOTIONAL SECURITY AND OUR SENSE OF SELF IDENTITIES THE ONLY COMMUNITY AND WAY OF LIFE ARE NO LONGER ROOTED IN OUR WEALTH FROM THE FANCIEST IS BY DISPLAYING WAY TO REGAIN RESPECT IS MORE THAN GREED IT IS THE CAR TO THE BIGGEST HOUSE CONSUMERISM HAS BECOME WHAT WE OWN FRENZIED EFFORT TO BELONG OUR IDENTITY
TRADE
IS
MADE
AT
THE RICHNESS
OF OUR VARIOUS
CULTURAL
NOT SOLVING
THE
INJUSTICE
DONE TO
THEY AMELIORATED THEIR PAIN WITH THIS MORE MATERIAL ADVANTAGES DYNAMIC
THEM
SENSE OF SUPERIORITY
AND
AND
CALL
WITH WHITE IDENTITY WHOSEROOTS ARE NOT IN HISTORY OF PEOPLE BY WAS AND LANGUAGE WHITE IDENTITY PLACE CULTURE PARTICULAR AND MAINTENANCE OF PRIVILEGE BORN OUT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT US WHERE WE COME PERSONS REFERENCE POINT TELLING SOURCE OF PRIDE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING AND WITH WHOMOUR
IS
MOST INTENSE
THEMSELVES PEOPLE
EXPRESSIONS
ARE IN
THE
POPULARITY
INCIDENTS
KKK
GROUPS INCLUDING
SOME WHOACTUALLY
OF VIOLENCE
IDENTITY
MOVEMENT
AGAINST
COLLEGE SILENT THAT
FROM
OF COLOR
NEIGHBORHOODS
SUBWAYS PARKS
AND
RACISM IS THE CAMPUSES ARE ON THE RISE THE MOST INSIDIOUS THE CLIMATE OF IT BY THE VAST MAJORITY CREATING ACCEPTANCE SANCTIONS INHUMANITY
AN IDENTITY SHORT OUR SENSE OF WHO WE ARE CLEARLY THUS BASED ON WHITE IS FRAUGHT WITH PROBLEMS IT HAS NO CULTURE FILL THE VOID IT CULTURES TO LEADING TO THE RIPOFF OF OTHER PEOPLES LOYALTYIN
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OF OUR COUNTRY
DEHU OBSCURES THE PAST AND THE VALUES OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT AGAINST OF EUROPEAN ANCESTRY DO AND EXPLOITATION YET THOSE MANIZATION
IDENTI1 AS
TO GET RID OF IT THESE DYNAMICS KEEP RACISM IN PLACE MUSTBE CHANGED BUTTO DO THAT SUCCESS THE INSTITUTIONSTHEMSELVES MUST RID OURSELVES OF WHITE IDENTITY AND EMBRACE OUR TRUE
OBVIOUSLY
FULLY
WHITE
THIS
IS
MANIFESTED
IN
AS
WE
SENSE OF SUPERIORITY
LITTLE
PRIVILEGE AS THE
WHAT COUPLED WITH THE FEAR THAT THEY WILL LOSE FEAR THAT IS INTEN NJ THEYVE MANAGED TO ACQUIREA
CULTURAL
IDENTITIES
FOR
MANY
OF
WILL BE CHILDREN
FRING
CULTURESAFRICAN
JEWISH
IN
CHIPPEWA SPANISH
WHITE
IDENTITY
IS
BASED
ON MAINTAIN
IS MUCH LESS FASHIONABLE OVERT VIOLENCE ING THEIR INNOCENCE MIDDLE CLASS WHITE PERSON CAN BE THEREFORE THE WORST EPITHET THAT THIS CALLS INTO PLAY AN UNCONSCIOUS GIVEN IS THAT SHE IS RACIST ALL INTERACTIONSA WHITE BONDING WHEN THAT PERVADES LOYALTY AND RACISM IS CHARGED THE RESPONSE IS NOT TO LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED THE INNOCENT INTENT OFTHE PERSON THE IMPACT OF ACTIONS BUTTE DEFEND
THE PROCESS OF RECLAIM ARMENIAN CHINESE SYRIAN HUNGARIAN COMPLEXITY OF OUR SOMETHINGABOUTTHE INGOUR ANCESTORS WECAN LEARN OF CONSCIOUSLY DECIDING THE AND THE IMPORTANCE
WE WANT TO PASS
AND
THE
AND
AND VALUES
RESISTED
OF THOSE
WHO
EXPANSION
ARE AN IMPORTANT
LEGACY
FROM WHICH
WE CAN REBUILD
BEHIND
THEM WHITE
IDENTITY
HERE
IS
ABOUT PROTECTING
THEIR
OWN
TODAY THE
DIFFICULT
ENTANGLEMENT
AND IDENTITY
IS
MADE
WAS MADE CLEAR IN THE UNDOING RACISM WORK AMERICAN MAN WAS SHOP WE ATTENDED AWHILE BACK AN AFRICAN
THIS
DYNAMIC
ON SOCALLED HEROES IN OUR HISTORY HE GOT ANDREW JACKSON AND DESCRIBED THE TRAIL OF TEARS IN WHICH ONE WOMENWHO ORIGINALLY HAD QUARTER OF THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE DIED SUBURBAN INTRODUCED HERSELF AS ONE OF THOSE WHITE MIDDLE CLASS
GIVING
PRESENTATION
MAKES TYPES SPOKE UP DEFENDING JACKSON SAYING EVERYBODY SHE REACTION MISTAKES WE MUST ASK WHY WAS THIS HER FIRST COMMITTED WANTS TO WORK AGAINST RACISM OR SHE WOULD NOT HAVE WITH WEEKEND TO ATTEND THE WORKSHOP YET SHE IDENTIFIED FULL AT JACKSON NOT WITH THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE HER REACTION DIVERTED FROM WHAT THIS LANDGRAB MADE POSSIBLE FOR WHITES THIS TENTION OF GETTING EACH OTHER OFF THE HOOK AND KEEP THE DUAL SERVES
PURPOSE AND THE PRIVILEGE ING OUT OF VIEW BOTH THE INJUSTICE CLASS FIRST IN THE WHITE MIDDLE DEEPLY INGRAINED
IDENTIFY
IS IT
WHEN THE LOCKED OUT SUCCEEDED IN SHRINKING AT THE VERY MOMENT PIECE EVERYTHING HAD BEEN TO GUARANTEE THEM GETTING LEGISLATION OF POWERAND PRIVILEGE IS EVEN DOLED OUT THE RESULT IS THAT THE REALITY OF PEOPLE OF COLOR AND WOMEN MORE OBSCURED THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS MOVEMENTS FOR EXAMPLE THERE RIGHTS IS WORSE THAN BEFORE THE CIVIL BETWEEN THE INCOMES OF WHITES AND PEOPLE IS NOW GREATER DISPARITY AND BETWEEN MEN AND WOMENTHAN BEFORE THE MOVEMENTS
OF COLOR
POSSIBLE
OF WHITES
NOW THE
PIE
IS
HIDDEN BEHIND
OF
TOKENS
WHO HAVE
POSITIONS
POWERTHIS
ANYONE
SURVIVAL
CAN
STILL
MAKE IT
STICKING
PEOPLE
WHO KNEW
TO THINK
DEPENDED ON
SECURITY
NOWENCOURAGED
TIES TO THE
THAT THEIR
RESTS IN BREAKING
OR HIDING
COMMUNITY
PROVIDES
IT
IS
AND FOREMOST
TO MAKE IT INTO THE COMMUNITY BONDS GET CUT IN THE DESPERATE DASH BEFORE THEM MIDDLE CLASS NOW PEOPLE OF COLOR LIKE THE WHITES TO FAMILY PROCESS RELINQUISHING TIES ENGAGE IN THE HOMOGENIZATION PLACE
WITH AND DEFEND ONE ANOTHER ONCE AGAIN THE POWER TABOO MAINTAINED AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE OPERATIVE THE STATUS QUO IS
KEPT INVISIBLE
AND PAST
RETAIN IN
LOCKED OUT IS
EVEN THOSE OF US WHO HAVE MANAGED TO OURSELVES FAMILY PLACE AND PAST OFTEN FIND
PHERE OF HOMOGENIZED MIDDLE CLASS
SOME
STERILE
TIES
TO
ATMOS
NORMSVIRTUALLY
EVERY SITUATION
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THE SUBJECTIVE
SIDE OF POLITICS
THAT BRINGS
PLACE TO THE
TOGETHER DIFFERENT
POLITICAL
PEOPLEFROM
ITS
THE
CORPORATE
WORK
COALITIONHAS
PARAMETERS
OF APPROPRIATE
WONDERBREADING PROCESS POWER RELATIONSHIPS TABOO ACCOUNTABILITY TO ANYTHING OTHER THAN OUR NARROW PRESCRIBED FUNCTION IS NONEXISTENT THE TEXTURE OF OUR EXPERIENCE IS SMOOTHED OVER AND REPLACED BY AN ATMOSPHERE THAT FOCUSES ON PERSONALITY AND TAKING CARE OF INDIVIDUAL FEELINGS RATHER
ARE INVISIBLE CONFLICT
BEHAVIOR
SET BY THE
THAN LOOKING AT THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS OUT OF WHICH THEY ARISE THE MIDDLE CLASS MANAGESKEEPS EVERYTHING RUNNING SMOOTHLY AND MAKES US FEEL BETTER WHILE ACCEPTING THINGS AS THEY ARE THEIR ROLE IS
TO KEEP CLASS ANTAGONISMS INVISIBLE
WE
TAGE
AS
ISOLATED
INDIVIDUALS
DEVOID
OF
HEN
AND RELATIONSHIPS THIS FOCUS IS PLAYED OUT IN THE CONTINUAL JUDGING OF OUR OWN AND ONE ANOTHERS ACCEPTABIL ITY SO WE ALWAYS HAVE TO PROVE OURSELVES SOMEHOW WERE NEVER
RESPONSIBILITIES QUITE
HEALING
IN
TROUBLED
TIME
RULES
MALE
PROTESTANT
REPLACING GOVERNED
THE UNCONSCIOUS
AND
SO
SILENT
ASSUMPTIONS
THAT
HAVE
UAL ABLEBODIED
CIPLE
SERIOUS
PERSON SOMETIMES
HAS
HIS
DOUBTS
PNIN
THE MIDDLE
THEIR IZED
CLASS
WHO ARE
THERE BY VIRTUE
OF RELINQUISHING
HERITAGE
HAVE CREATED
ISOLATION
CULTURE
OF ESTRANGEMENT
CHARACTER
NEW PRINCIPLES OF AND HARMONY MUST BECOME THE CORE OF OUR RESPECT ACCOUNTABILITY EFFORTS TO CREATE CHANGE COLLECTIVELY WHOSE INTERESTS EVALUATING ARE BEING SERVED AND WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE MOVING AWAY FROM DOMINATION AND CONTROL SHOULD BE THE BASIS OF DECISIONS
FOR
OUR RELATIONSHIPS
LONG WITH
BY ALIENATION
IS
EVERYONE
SOCIAL
INDIVIDUALLY
AND CONSTANTLY HAVING TO BE ON GUARD FREE TO DO THEIR OWN THING YET WE ARE
BECAUSE BEHAVIOR PATTERNS THAT PERPETUATE THE STATUS DEEPLY INGRAINED INAPPROPRIATE DO SO NECESSARILY THE STRUGGLES
IN
QUO ARE SO
IN WE ACKNOWLEDGE INTERRELATIONSHIPSWHETHER NOT THIS MEANS WE CANNOT BE SUPPORTIVE OF ONE ANOTHER WITHOUT MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY THE MIDDLE CLASS VIEWS ACCOUNTA
BEINGS
US
IT
IS
INEVITABLE
THEM
AND DISRUPTIVE
VISIBLE
AWKWARD POWER TO
BILITY TRUST
WHEN IT
THE
IF
IS
THAT ENABLES US TO
NAME OF RESPECTING FREEDOM WE CANNOT WE CANT TALK ABOUT NEW WAYS OF BEING
GOING TO CREATE
HOWARE WE EVER
THEM
MEANS BREAKING THE POWER TABOO AND MAKING THOUGH IT MAY MAKE US UNCOMFORTABLE THIS WILL PROFOUNDLY ALTER THE CONTEXT OF OUR INTERACTIONS TRUST PROCESS BEGINS TO EMERGE BLAME AND GUILT DISSOLVE IT BECOMES POSSIBLE TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE WHERE EVERYONE IS IMPORTANT
BEEN DAMAGED BY SOCIETY THIS IS WHY SOCIAL CHANGE CANNOT BE ABOUT SOME PEOPLE TRYING TO FIX THINGS FOR OTHERS REAL CHANGE IS BASED ON THE RECOGNITION OF WHAT WE HAVE ALL LOST AS WE REGAIN OUR WHOLENESS BY LEARNING TO TRUST OTHERS OR TO TRUST
WEVE ALL
OUR
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