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1 " They want to feel better, but they don't want to do better. "
― Ijeoma Oluo , So You Want to Talk About Race / White Fragility / Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
2 " Words are always at the heart of all our problems, and the beginning of all our solutions. "
3 " We like to filter new information through our own experiences to see if it computes. If it matches up with what we have experienced, it's valid. If it doesn't match up, it's not. But race is not a universal experience. "
4 " It's the system, and our complacency in that system, that gives racism its power, not individual intent. "
5 " So much of what we think and feel about people of other races is dictated by our system, and not our hearts. "
6 " If you are white, and you don't want to feel any of that pain by having these conversations, then you are asking people of color to bear the entire burden of racism alone. "
7 " We need to recognize that the fear that people of color have of police is not merely rooted in feeling or culture, but in the separate and violent history that our police forces have with communities of color. "
8 " Cultural appropriation is the product of a society that prefers its culture cloaked in whiteness. "
