Wednesday, 19 August 2020

WHITE BIAS IN CALLING OUT RACISM

'The most unfair part of it, Wallace thinks, is that when you tell white people that something is racist, they hold it up to the light and try to discern if you are telling the truth. As if they can tell by the grain if something is racist or not, and they always trust their own judgment. It's unfair because white people have a vested interest in underestimating racism, its amount, its intensity, its shape, its effect. They are the fox in the henhouse.' 
Brandon Taylor, Real Life, p.97.