On Saturdays I teach a class of white women about the racism at the core of our ideas about white womanhood.

One thing we talk about frequently is white motherhood and how it (like white women) is represented as the purest, the most benevolent.

I’m thinking about this today https://twitter.com/meiselasb/status/1327484433725681665

I said at the beginning of covid that many white people struggled w idea of wearing masks to protect other people because they/we are unaccustomed to the idea of thinking of white bodies as dangerous.

I try to admit when I'm wrong, and I think I was wrong.

I think we (white folks) are in fact very accustomed to seeing ourselves as dangerous, but that it's so much part of our "culture" (that is, white supremacy) that we are barely conscious of it.

We are dangerous, and we know, but we believe everyone else is responsible for the danger. Meritocracy/individualism reaching ultimate levels of poison. I have more thoughts on this, but... it's time to teach the aforementioned class.

Be safe, everybody.