Essay written by KATHERINE ALEXIS
This socio-political MUSE-ings is inspired by the podcast, Southlake, released August of 2022.
White Fragility - noun - discomfort and defensiveness on the part of a white person when confronted by movements and policies created to impact change addressing racial abuse, inequality and injustice.
White Privilege, for anyone who is unclear, as I was at one point, means that as a white person, or white-passing person, there is inherent privilege granted to you at birth because of the color of your skin.
There are people who are proud white supremacist, racist, eugenics loving bigots, this isn’t written for those who harbor that level of intentional hate. This is about those of us who don’t intend to be racist but have not examined the ways in which we still are, or taken the time to investigate the systems that uphold oppression. My own journey of recognizing and divesting from white supremacy has taught me that the defensiveness of whiteness is a triggered, conditioned reaction to a culture that has centered white people's comfort over the liberation of the global majority. Every white person's triggered response around racism is an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of why you think and feel the way that you do, who taught you that and who benefits. This essay offers pathways to understanding how we each uphold systems of oppression within ourselves and in the world, until we choose to end our programmed behavior, by cultivating self-awareness that brings about disruption of ingrained racist behaviors. Divesting, like healing, is a process and it’s necessary for me to share my path with you, so that is where we will begin.
As a white person, I know that as I offer you my reflections on white privilege and white fragility, it is essential for me to be vulnerable and honest about my own conditioned racism, and my personal experiences of acknowledging and divesting from the programmed systems of white supremacy.
Three years ago, when I first moved to Philadelphia I witnessed my own internalized racism. I judged a man based on the color of his skin and I behaved unconsciously. In August of 2022, I was in the midst of moving to Philadelphia from Upstate New York, after my first trip bringing things to Philly as I was driving out of my neighborhood to return to Woodstock, a Black man driving his truck pulled up next to my moving car. I felt afraid and immediately went to close my car window but stopped myself. It was an out of body experience. I witnessed my programmed reaction, understood why it was happening and chose to disrupt the pattern, feeling deep shame and embarrassment. I attribute this directly to conditioning coming out of Hollywood where for the majority of my life Black men have been cast as the villain. I have no personal lived experience where a Black man has threatened me or made me feel afraid, and yet I was conditioned into this reaction.
Before this happened I had spent intentional effort confronting my own internalized white supremacy while living in overwhelmingly white towns and this was my first experience since recognizing and divesting from white supremacy that I was living in a new, incredibly diverse city and I witnessed the racism within me presenting itself to be CHECKED. Even in writing this my white fragility doesn't want to admit that I had this programmed reaction. What’s more important than my ego is candidly sharing this with you so that together, we can examine the ingrained racist mindsets and behaviors that manifest from a lifetime of being saturated with white, nationalist, capitalist, patriarchal systems and media that has intentionally made people of color the "villains" to a "white, civilized, culture.”
The first time a friend admitted her internalized racism to me, she shared that when she walked by a Black person she automatically wondered what they might do to her. This is the equivalent of a white woman moving her purse to her other shoulder or clutching it closer when a Black person approaches from the other direction on the sidewalk. This was in the 90s and I didn’t understand it then but I knew she didn’t like this about herself and she didn’t understand why she had this reaction except to see it as her own racism. Thirty years later I know it to be a lack of awareness and acknowledgement surrounding her conditioned, bigoted mindset. Being WILLING to self reflect is the first step in understanding how we have each received this programming as part of our default operating system, to serve and uphold racist systems of oppression.
My whole life I’ve had racially diverse friends from various socio-economic backgrounds, cultures and places. This was a blessing that came from growing up in a suburb of DC, which as the capital of the United States brings people together from everywhere. By no means did that mean I was immune from society's racist conditioning, it is everywhere.
Growing up in the 1980s my parents used the “n word” as an alternative and totally reprehensible and offensive name for the Brazil Nut. One of them told me that my grandfather had used the term and I somatically remember feeling and knowing it was wrong and I asked my parents not to use it. I never experienced “direct” learning from my parents to be racist: they always taught me to treat people equally and how I would like to be treated. Though I do remember them having an aversion to “that rap music” and the lifestyle they believed went along with it. I think their attitude towards it was learned ignorance absorbed through the media bias at the time, and their own early childhood programming and conditioning.
Racism is foul. I know my own intentions, I know how I love people, I know that it’s wrong to judge people based on their race. White fragility manifests as denial and fear because the majority of white people do not want to admit that they’ve been programmed to be racist, programmed to support a framework based on systemic oppression. Many are too ashamed to admit that they have their own conditioned white supremacy and racism to take the time to stop and examine where it comes from and how often it’s not an intentional thing that has happened but a conditioned behavior response that is generational, social or comes from media and entertainment storytelling. They may be aware that they have their own racist ticks but they choose not to self examine and learn where their programming comes from because they have the privilege to not do so.
In the past I tried to prove myself to be exempt from racism to my Black friends and honestly bless them for putting up with me centering my whiteness in the middle of their stories when their lived experience of racism has nothing to do with me. What was I trying to prove? Why as white people do we do this? Because we inhabit a social culture that teaches white people that not only CAN they center themselves, but they are "superior" so they deserve to. The need for white people to prove themselves innocent is a display of white fragility that often results in silencing people of color and their lived perspective.
Here’s my advice to white folks like me: If a person of color is sharing their lived experience with you, SHUT UP and LISTEN. Choose gratitude that you have the opportunity to hear their testimony and understand that you will never understand. To recognize your own white supremacy, fragility and internalized racism is committing to a lifetime of un-learning and re-programming yourself. Divesting and learning are non-linear, never-ending, processes and it is very likely that making this commitment to yourself will bring harmony, peace, and incredible growth enriching experiences into your life.
Many people would like racism to disappear. Racism makes them uncomfortable and they refuse to accept that it’s a pervasive issue. There are people who straight up deny the existence of racism. Even going as far as to call it “victim mentality”. White supremacy, racism, hate, discrimination, white fragility, etc. run rampant in contemporary society, and division is a tool being used indiscriminately to keep people distracted and at each other's throats. On March 18, 2025 the news reported that the current president had removed a segregation clause from federal law that prohibited contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains, another executive order in Trump’s war against DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion). The current administration is consistently attempting to erase the history of Black Americans whenever and wherever it can. Removing monuments, museum displays: for reference in April 2025 they attempted to remove Harriet Tubman from the National Parks Service website. The page was eventually restored but it was a stark example of the erasure and denial of American history that is happening daily. United States currency that had been planned for years featuring Black American historical figures was scrapped in favor of quarters that will have Donald Trump featured on them instead.
Republicans say that Democrats think that “everything is racist” and it has become normalized for the Republican party to use this statement as a defense mechanism. Vice President JD Vance stood on stage in the Summer of 2024 at a campaign rally and joked about how he had had a Diet Mountain Dew and how the Democrats would probably call that racist. Is that like Budweiser being “woke”? Aren’t these two entities simply capitalist companies doing their best to appeal to ALL in pursuit of profit? The moment was ridiculous, uncomfortable and steeped in WHITE FRAGILITY. He thought he was making a joke at the expense of liberals, but what he is actually doing is denying and diminishing awareness in an effort to discredit “wokeness”. The cracks in his armor show his white fragility and his desire to not only benefit from white supremacy, but ultimately to uphold and maintain it. White fragility, racism, and benefiting from white supremacy crosses ALL party lines.
The impression of white fragility left on me when I first listened to the podcast, Southlake in 2022 was indelible. A poignant overview, the podcast chronologically details the events that led to the Carroll public school system in Southlake, Texas making efforts to be more inclusive and antiracist. It illustrates the substantive social challenges they encountered trying to implement new policies and how these issues were derailed by the pandemic, the protests and the racist reckoning in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Awbrey and other Black Americans who have been murdered by those who purport to protect and serve.
I thought about the podcast consistently for two years before dipping in for a second tour through the storied events of Southlake, TX spanning 2015-2020.
The second time around was with the purpose of writing this piece and what I was left with was white fragility but coupled with its constant companions: racism, IGNORANCE (side note: being anti-woke is ignorance in action, choosing to stay asleep rather than learn, adapt and repair), defensiveness and a deep-rooted lack of willingness to admit flaws that could allow growth. In this instance white fragility enables the unwillingness to self reflect and purposeful avoidance of total self awareness.
This podcast is A LOT. Conflicting views, turmoil, deep-rooted generational pain, denial and societal blindness. Listening to it is an opportunity to witness behavior so rooted in fear and denial that the people involved reject changes that could embrace everyone and release humans from generations of shame and invalidation. When listening to this podcast, miscommunication, sensitive egos and a desire to protect children from the idea of racism is obvious and clear. Simultaneously revealing how these behaviors result in closed minded defensiveness creating white-centered atmospheres that do everything BUT create solutions.
The story is an example of how the lack of understanding, awareness and acknowledgement of white fragility creates rifts, miscommunication and ire within communities. We see that it hinders progress through lack of acceptance. The happenings in Southlake shows us the way that white fragility harms efforts to evolve American systems of learning into a present day framework that is historically accurate. It also limits our ability to develop a learning social structure that is accepting and open to everyone who has traditionally been considered “other” through social oppression.
This leaves us asking, how do we teach about the presence and impact of racism, white supremacy, and the Black American experience without triggering parents’ fears that their children will take on the guilt and shame of generations past? Parents are worried about their children taking “responsibility” for racism. Children are not responsible for these learned behaviors; ADULTS ARE. Adults who deny the reality of our society and their influential role in it. Fostering safe spaces that address the realities of history and present day allows for honesty as well as accountability which will in turn allow future generations to learn from our mistakes. White adults need to step up and take accountability for how they allow racism to perpetuate through generations and step up to learn and then teach and hold their children through their own learning. Schools must teach about racism and how to be anti-racist must also be taught at home.
People are fearful of admitting that they are racist. While it may not be intentional that doesn’t mean they haven’t been conditioned or programmed without their consent from a young age and from many different sources. By openly witnessing and admitting our susceptibility to generational conditioning we can see ourselves more clearly so that we can change and grow for the betterment of all humans.
Reckoning takes open minds, finesse, patience, and a willingness to confront our own fears and conditioned racism… nonreactivity and a willingness to listen without ego. It also requires devotion to teaching children the truth without burdening them with shame. This requires a consciousness of compassion, curiosity, equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. For children, nothing is more consequential than the opinion and approval of their parents, so when a safe space is created for them to learn, helping them be aware while also teaching them it is not their fault becomes entirely achievable.
In Southlake, Texas the community tried to confront racist themes in their microcosm of society and failed because of white fragility. 2015-2018, multiple incidents of racism occurred in Southlake. A memorial statue honoring a local Black man was defaced with graffiti that expressed hateful racism and violent promises. A snapchat video went viral nationally after a homecoming dance, featuring a group of all white teenagers together in a bedroom carousing and using the n word as if it belonged in their mouths.
Every time I have listened to this podcast and I hear about this viral snap chat video it blows my mind. I grew up listening to rap music but I also grew up KNOWING that was not my word to use. To use that word as a white person, or worse, to refer to a person of color with that word amounts to a level of extreme audacity and disrespect that dehumanizes Black people. The history of the word is one that needs to be understood contextually. To use it as a white person undermines the history of the Black American experience as enslaved people stolen from their homes and treated as belongings, stripped of the right to their own sovereign lives. To know that white kids today think that using that word is okay because Black Americans use it and to know that they do not understand why it’s not okay to use it stops me cold.
The viral snapchat video is what prompted town leaders to try to address the rampant racism and ignorance in their town. At a town meeting, parents shared stories of the abuse their children experienced at school. They expressed exasperation at how little was done to implement accurate educational curriculum in order to try to stop this hateful disrespect. The stories undeniably illustrated that non-white kids as well as kids identifying as LGBTQ+ were subject to ridicule, mental harassment and discrimination by their peers. In response, the school board formed a coalition, Carrol’s District Diversity Council with 63 members, consisting of students and adult residents of the town tasked to develop a system to address discriminatory and racist behavior. What happened when the plan went public in 2020 eradicated any progress towards social growth, kindness and acceptance that they could have made.
The narrators and interviewees highlight how pervasive racism and ignorance were in the school system. Sharing accounts of white students who used racial slurs in school and how they weren’t held accountable. Black students were told to turn their cheek and to not put energy into associating with students (a cowardly and direct invalidation of the Black students’ experience) who had zero understanding of why using the n word is offensive to Black people. A prevalent opinion expressed by the white students of the school, rooted in ignorance, was one you have probably heard before: “If Black people can use it, why can’t I?” This lack of understanding reveals a dearth of responsible teaching in schools of the Black American experience. K-12 educational curricula are white-washed, heavily-curated versions of American history that obliterate relevant experiences in the name of indoctrinating patriotism and making America look good to its citizens.
Southlake’s District Diversity Council worked through 2018, 2019 and by early 2020 was on track to begin implementing new policies and curriculum to combat racism and discrimination in schools. Then COVID hit, quickly followed by the national racial reckoning spurred by the murder of George Floyd. What happened in Southlake is a result of national events leading to a backlash of white supremacy spearheaded by President Trump focusing not on the positive messaging of protests but rather painting the protesters as vandals, hoodlums and most specifically thugs that stoked fears and white fragility in America.
The Cultural Competence Action Plan (CCAP) developed by the District Diversity Council to protect students received immense pushback when it was released in the summer of 2020. People were in a fear-based uproar. Parents of white students who did not participate in the development of the District Diversity Council or had not been present when parents of non-white students spoke up about the racism their children had experienced in school in 2018 were now outraged and formed a group opposing the new CCAP curriculum. This is when the deep-seated racism and white fragility came to the forefront. Citizens of the town were enraged and believed that teachers should not be teaching about racism in schools. They argued that to teach about it is to teach the thing itself, that to talk about racial slurs and to use them by name perpetuates racism in children, furthering the problem. They proclaimed that their children didn’t know these words. Yet, the words are present in society and in popular culture so inevitably as children grow they will be exposed to them. Without context and education around what is right and wrong they are more likely to use the words and continue the same hateful, harmful and disrespectful behavior from a place of ignorance, strengthening racism within the American population.
Southlake, Summer of 2020; under pressure, responding in cowardice: the school board faltered and failed to vote to implement the CCAP. Instead they chose to vote to “receive” the plan but not to implement it, a decision that confounded many of the board members as what it meant to “receive” the plan was never defined. This vote at the August 2020 school board meeting became an incredibly significant turning point for the district and was a major part of what tore Southlake apart.
The voices of the opposition sound clear. These are the people: primarily parents who are fearful of what the District Diversity Council wants to accomplish. The denial of systemic racism is omnipresent and these people believe that by not teaching about the oppressive racist history of the United States, essentially sweeping it under the rug, that the issues will go away. They believe that children should be taught to not see color or race, that teaching about it only deepens division. There are people who are identified as racially non-white who deny the existence of systemic racism and state that they wouldn’t be where they are if it is a real problem. These personal experiences fail to acknowledge other people’s lived experience of discrimination and hate. One woman claims that the diversity plan teaches her white children that white privilege means they don’t have to work hard for what they want in their lives, which is an uninformed misinterpretation of the term. A Latin man tells the story of his own abuse and racism from white people and Black people that he experienced as a child growing up. When he is then asked if he believes that there is systemic racism within the Black community, he denies that it is possible.
Racism is a product of white supremacy and white supremacy
has impacted all racial identities and how we all treat each other.
Within the podcast a Black man states that he never personally experienced racism, denying its prevalence but the experience of one man certainly doesn’t mean that ignoring and invalidating the lived Black American experience is what should happen. The history of racism cannot be erased. It has already happened, it exists out in the world; denying it only leaves people without context and raises children who think that racial slurs belong in their mouths because they do not understand the contextual harm that goes along with using the terms because they were never taught the history. VICIOUS CIRCLE. Denial = Fear. If you cannot sit with the uncomfortable truth of white supremacy and racism then you need to confront why these subjects make you uncomfortable. If all Black children have to have “the talk” why don’t all non-Black children need to learn the realities of Black folks in this country?
There is no such thing as reverse racism. Informed wariness, prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination is present everywhere and non-white people certainly have their own valid issues with white people and some do choose to be discriminatory towards them. This behavior stems from the personal experiences of racism and discrimination that they have been subjected to in their lives. There is discrimination stemming from informed wariness and after hearing stories and witnessing the hate perpetrated on Black folks by police, if you are paying attention you understand why these prejudices exist. It’s simply protection from those that will cause harm to you for the color of your skin. I cannot believe that my friends who are Black do not eschew all people who are white, and I would not blame them if they did. The choice not to have white people in your life as a Black person is NOT RACISM OR REVERSE RACISM. It is a protective choice informed by experience that as a Black person you cannot trust that you are safe because white people are very likely to judge you for the color of your skin and simply for that reason alone treat you poorly and potentially call the cops on you.
An excellent example is the story of nine year old Bobbi Wilson. She learned about how to kill lantern flies online after learning that they were an invasive species. On October 22nd, 2023 Bobbi walked around her New Jersey neighborhood treating plants, trying to help the environment. Unbeknownst to her a white man, her next door neighbor, Gordon Lawshe assumed the worst and called the cops on her, claiming not to know her, identifying her as a, “real tiny woman, wearing a hood” without bothering to ask the young girl what she was doing. (AS A SIDE NOTE: WE ARE ALL SO SCARED OF EACH OTHER THAT WE DO NOT ASK ENOUGH QUESTIONS). A police cruiser was sent to the neighborhood and confronted Bobbi whose mother was informed that the call came from a neighbor who had said he was scared of her daughter when he called the police. The recorded transcript of Lawshe’s report is filled with racism. There is no reverse racism, but there is definitely prejudice and discrimination that comes from informed and learned experiences that has led Black Americans or those who are considered Other to distrust white people, and rightfully so.
During the summer of 2020, while these events were unfolding in Southlake, on the national scale Critical Race Theory was turned into a boogeyman by conservative activist Christopher Rufo who appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson on September 1st, 2020 to stoke fears about how Critical Race Theory sows division in American society and that citizens should be very worried about the state of their country. He outright denied that white people contribute to racism, and lamented that federal workers were being forced to attend seminars about DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion). His messaging immediately centered whiteness in the issue and denied that people have conditioned and programmed racism inside them. To watch him talk about it is to witness white fragility in action. His white fragility shines as he fearmongers, triggering people’s love of their position of privilege and supremacy, and their fears of losing it. It's also flipping the script, suggesting white people are the victims, it's wild… the oppressor who benefits from the systems are never the oppressed. Three days later President Donald Trump issued a memo forbidding Critical Race Theory to be taught in any federal institution, calling it child abuse, sparking a nationwide ignorance ridden reaction of the subject matter fueled by his lies that Critical Race Theory teaches white children to be ashamed of their heritage and to hate America.
Critical Race Theory or CRT, which is college level course study, is an academic study of racism’s pervasive impact on society. Typically taught at university level, CRT should be looked at as the unvarnished truth; history as it happened rather than the white washed curriculum we have been fed for decades throughout K-12 that indoctrinates millions of children into blind patriotism and white supremacy.
CRT, has been considered as harmful and unnecessary by white Americans: people benefitting from white supremacy have expressed fear around it since it was demonized in 2020, setting concerns ablaze that it was being taught to children and we have seen how those fears have metastasized nationally.
CRT isn't meant to make you hate your country: its goal is to inspire action and equitable change for the betterment of ALL. It will, however, definitely lead you to question the tidy, curated version of American history that most of us have been force fed. A version of American history that is meant to instill unquestioning patriotism.
My history education was so effective in this way that I still feel a little tick of shame when I question or speak out against my country. I have heard the phrase, “America is the best country in the world.” probably thousands of times in my life. Hear something enough and you will believe it. The frameworks of power that are currently in use oppress, that fund the never ending war machine, value capitalism above the welfare of its citizens, promote an unequal “justice” system, foster collusion between elected officials and lobbyists, and uphold the gendered patriarchy based system. These are some of the reasons that my peers express strong dislike if not hate for America.
When people speak out against CRT, they deny and trivialize the lived experience of Black folks. Donald Trump did this in 2020 when he claimed that CRT destroys and tears apart families and friends. Because of white fragility, white people are generally uncomfortable when discussing race that often no one is talking about it at all.
While it is certainly NOT the intention of CRT to teach white children to be ashamed of their heritage and to hate America, I can’t say that that isn’t a side effect of learning that what you have been taught in school is actually a white washed version of American history meant to indoctrinate patriotic values into citizens from a very young age. I ask you, is the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacre of Black Wall Street NOT a major historical moment in American history?... and yet I was never taught about this atrocity in any of my history classes over 13 years of public school, nor in college did anyone mention this or other major facts that are shameful, monumental moments in the history of this country.
What we are not taught continues to astonish me and learning more has helped me to understand the frameworks of our society on a deeper level. I now know about the lasting impact of redlining, the Tulsa massacre and the stark reality that police forces are historically based in groups that were tasked with apprehending formerly enslaved peoples who were trying to live free. Take a moment to think about the implications of that and how these prejudices would trickle down and root into police culture.
Learning about these things and how they have impacted the global majority and seeing where each thing interweaves into something else, like how educational funding is distributed based on tax brackets so that children who have no influence over the amount of money their parents earn are subject to the quality of their education being dictated by their parents’ tax bracket: this directly relates to redlining; and you don’t think that AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS NECESSARY? These things don’t cause me to hate America but they do cause frustration, consternation and sharp awareness of how racism is deeply systemic, and institutional here. It is that way because these frameworks were built by white men benefiting from white supremacy, not in the distant past but in fact this is the reality of recent history, with segregation, Jim Crow, and voting rights for Black Americans and is still happening today as we witness the current war on DEI, voting rights and wokeness.
Relegating information and certain historical truths to the corners is another form of oppression. All history is valid, and all experiences are worthy of our time and attention because without the full story we do not grow. It may be uncomfortable to confront the truth, but imagine being told that what you have suffered and experienced is not valid and should be swept under the rug. Imagine witnessing it happen so often in current events that it has become normalized. Imagine being told that your history and experiences are irrelevant.
The reporters of Southlake do not make any opinionated conclusions about the events that occurred from 2015 through to the culmination of the podcast in 2022, allowing people to make their own conclusions. Personally I think they should've said outright what they thought about what happened in Southlake. The fact that white Americans rarely proclaim out loud that certain behaviors are racist, discriminatory, hateful, homophobic, white supremacist and manifestations of white fragility is one of the reasons they continue to perpetuate and swirl within our society. When someone steps into the whirlpool it adds resistance and slows things down, and makes people be alert, so that they stop and look where they're going.
Black Americans and people of the global majority have been doing this forever but white people allow things to perpetuate by not calling out what the issues are because it doesn’t affect them, and they benefit from privileged white supremacy. Perhaps because they fear to say the wrong thing, but when your intentions are pure, even when you say the wrong thing, you realize that getting called out for it and owning it is the way to make change and that shift is necessary, vulnerable and BRAVE. I think that most of us are fearful to speak out because we are aware enough to witness our own conditioned racism that is undeniably there but it is not something we identify with or are proud of. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fucking there and influencing our behavior as we move through the world in relationship to folks with less privilege!
If you are a white person reading this, have you confronted your white fragility? I have had to be willing to admit that even though I do not want to be racist or have racist reactions, they are there, there are many reasons for this and not one of them is intentional. They are conditioned and programmed from a variety of sources. Subliminal messaging isn't just for advertising, friends. Think about how often Black men have been cast as the villain in a cast that is 99.9% white. How often are these sources of conditioning created by people toeing the line, glomming on to a societal trope in order to entertain? How much of that is their own conditioned racism?
Here’s the thing: we’re all saddled with programming and conditioning that we didn’t choose. By owning it, seeing it, CHOOSING SELF AWARENESS, we don’t exacerbate the problem, we DISRUPT it. Ignoring it and staying blind to it is what perpetuates the issue. None of this is an excuse for racism, we need to up the self awareness and accountability quotients. We all need to hold ourselves accountable.
If you’re interested in a bird’s eye view of the failure to create change and how that came about as well as a deeper understanding of what an uphill battle it is to decondition our society from these sensitivities in the pursuit of growth and a more welcoming and understanding society, listen to Southlake. These events that highlight the difficulties are so important because they show us that we must support the pursuit of change through honest education.
Will this essay inspire you to consider how these tough but necessary conversations could be had with better results? Should these updated learning curriculums also be offered to adults? How can we come together in different ways to foster further understanding that breaks down systems and curriculums that white wash our society and perpetuate reliving our past transgressions against each other?
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This subject is much larger than this essay touches on and therefore I will be continuing to talk about racism and white supremacy and everything that goes along with it. It’s a necessary, ongoing discussion so that we may learn to be better to our fellow humans.
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Southlake was produced by NBC News, hosted by Antonia Hylton and Mike Hixenbaugh and was released in August 2022. It consists of 6 episodes with 5 bonus follow up episodes. It was nominated for a Peabody award in 2022 and has appeared on numerous “must listen” podcast lists. It is available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, Overcast and more.
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Additional learning source: “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” written by Robin DiAngelo, published in 2018.