If you are white and you understand how whiteness operates then you know that 45 was not an aberration but a push back to a world where whiteness no longer pays out like it used to.

Until you as white people understand these truths about yourselves, you cannot truly ever be an accomplice or ally in the struggle for liberation. Nor can you begin to connect the larger pieces of anti racism work. If you try, it doesn't work.

One of the reasons that I despise DEI work is because its a white washed way to tackle the issue without ever making structural changes. Increasingly I also think most of the anti racism books that we lift up are bullshit. I say that as the head of an anti racism org.

Treading lightly I will say that some of the folks peddling these anti racism book are nothing more than elite hustlers who don't dare to actually work in community with the organizers on the ground.