# Highlights From Crystal Marie Fleming  ## Metadata - Author: [[Crystal Marie Fleming]] - Full Title: Highlights From Crystal Marie Fleming - Category: #books ## Highlights - crushed by systemic white supremacy, ([Location 68](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=68)) - We are surrounded by racial stupidity. ([Location 75](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=75)) - we are all systematically exposed to racial stupidity and racist beliefs ([Location 79](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=79)) - racial ignorance ([Location 82](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=82)) - living in a racist society ([Location 88](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=88)) - diversity training ([Location 106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=106)) - dialogue.” ([Location 107](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=107)) - conversations “about race” based entirely on racial ignorance are actually quite harmful. ([Location 120](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=120)) - racist Starbucks employee ([Location 138](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=138)) - long-term student of racial domination, ([Location 146](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=146)) - I was like Damn! Why ain’t nobody tell me? ([Location 152](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=152)) - Note: Grammar and syntax. - I was one of those black kids who didn’t know they were black. ([Location 158](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=158)) - Note: A little bit un-observant. - scientific racism, ([Location 186](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=186)) - structural changes and social justice require collective action and consciousness-raising. ([Location 206](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=206)) - Like, I was this close to becoming some version of Ben Carson, Kanye West, or Omarosa. ([Location 212](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=212)) - term “racial stupidity” refers to ([Location 215](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=215)) - nonsensical, illogical, ahistorical, or socially inaccurate claims about race and racism the denial of racial oppression racist beliefs such as the inherent and natural superiority of one race over others superficial descriptions of the racial order ([Location 215](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=215)) - Race is inherently ridiculous ([Location 223](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=223)) - no biological basis to dividing humans into “racial” categories. ([Location 224](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=224)) - Note: Oh? - Sociologists often say that race is “socially constructed,” ([Location 235](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=235)) - “Systemic racism” (sometimes referred to as “structural racism”) is another key concept, and by wrapping your head around the term, you’ll automatically distinguish yourself from billions of people who have no idea what it means. ([Location 241](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=241)) - “Institutional racism” consists of racist ideas and practices embedded within social organizations and institutions ([Location 249](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=249)) - Whether you realize it or not, racism is systemic, pervasive, and embedded within the core of all of our major institutions. ([Location 252](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=252)) - micro-aggressions, ([Location 254](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=254)) - The stupidity that undergirds white supremacy is now perpetuated from one generation to the next through “socialization,” ([Location 289](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=289)) - white supremacy—the dominance of people socially defined as white—is systematically maintained by hundreds of millions of ordinary people, ([Location 302](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=302)) - the truth is that white dominance is pervasive. ([Location 304](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=304)) - Given the prevalence of racism denial, the bar for intelligent racial discourse is so low that merely saying “systemic racism exists” is often viewed as a genius-level intervention. ([Location 312](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=312)) - gotdamn ([Location 319](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=319)) - Note: Spelling. - Moreover, it is well established that the richest whites exercise the most economic and political control over our society. According to an analysis of data published by the Federal Reserve in 2013, the top 10 percent of the wealthiest white families “own almost everything.” ([Location 326](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=326)) - Note: Proof of what? - racial economic inequality. ([Location 337](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=337)) - Note: Red herring. - the Whites-Only White-Supremacy Fallacy, the foolish idea that proof of white supremacy requires every single person of color to be deprived of all rights and resources. ([Location 344](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=344)) - white supremacy has historically made room for people of color who were willing to accommodate white dominance. ([Location 348](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=348)) - surviving within a violent, unjust system. ([Location 350](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=350)) - Obama’s role in whitewashing white supremacy ([Location 354](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=354)) - systemic white supremacy pervades politics on the left and the right. ([Location 359](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=359)) - there is only one racist system in the United States, and that system is called white supremacy. ([Location 377](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=377)) - calling out a violent, oppressive system that is responsible for the mass killing, enslavement, exploitation, and methodical disadvantaging of millions of people. ([Location 395](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=395)) - Note: This system needs indexing (boundaries), dating, etc. - Racial stupidity serves to justify and reinforce racism. ([Location 399](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=399)) - the law has established and protected an actual property interest in whiteness itself. ([Location 405](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=405)) - critical race theory, or CRT. ([Location 408](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=408)) - theories of white supremacy as a pervasive system of racial oppression, ([Location 411](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=411)) - First: white supremacy is, most fundamentally, a system of power ([Location 416](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=416)) - Second: white supremacy is not just neo-Nazis and white nationalism. ([Location 417](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=417)) - Finally: white supremacy is inextricably linked to other systems of domination. ([Location 421](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=421)) - epistemology of ignorance. ([Location 424](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=424)) - how to intelligently connect the racial past to the present, ([Location 432](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=432)) - even acknowledge that systemic racism was a serious, ongoing problem in the United States ([Location 437](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=437)) - wake of Obama’s 2008 election, ([Location 454](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=454)) - Note: Caused a resurgence of racism. - persistence of group-based inequalities. ([Location 484](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=484)) - rather than to the dominance of people socially defined as white. ([Location 495](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=495)) - critical race theorists set about to unveil and address the persistence of racism and white dominance. ([Location 501](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=501)) - other systems of inequality. ([Location 502](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=502)) - From a critical race perspective, the United States is not (and never was) a benevolent “nation of immigrants.” Rather, it is a nation of settler-colonialism, genocide, white nationalism, racial slavery, legal torture, and institutionalized rape. ([Location 506](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=506)) - Naturalization Act of 1790, ([Location 513](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=513)) - racial history. ([Location 517](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=517)) - nation’s first affirmative action programs and government handouts were conceived by white Americans for white Americans. ([Location 524](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=524)) - the 1862 Homestead Act gleefully gave away millions of acres of stolen land almost exclusively to whites. ([Location 527](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=527)) - the term “white supremacy” was not part of our sociological lexicon. ([Location 542](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=542)) - award-winning dissertation on racism and collective memory in France, ([Location 554](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=554)) - “epistemology of ignorance,” ([Location 570](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=570)) - sensitized me to systemic inequalities. ([Location 576](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=576)) - The gap between the limited socioeconomic resources available at a public institution versus the elite private schools I’d grown accustomed to could not be more stark and morally abhorrent. ([Location 576](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=576)) - I understood, then, that “white supremacy” was not merely about a few racist extremists but rather about a system of domination that stretched into the present day and affected every sphere of society. ([Location 581](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=581)) - maintenance of white supremacy involves and requires “cognitive dysfunctions” and warped representations of the social world ([Location 589](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=589)) - Mills is basically saying that whites’ ideas “about race” are fundamentally based on misrepresentations and distortions of social reality, ([Location 595](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=595)) - racist societies socialize all of us to be racial idiots, ([Location 598](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=598)) - vague words like “race” or “racial” can often disguise what racism is ([Location 611](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=611)) - white supremacy, as an ideology, would have you believe that white people have been timelessly dominant. ([Location 617](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=617)) - bear in mind that ethnicity and ethnic boundaries pre-date the more recent emergence of race. ([Location 622](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=622)) - Note: Another “Oh?” - I am not drawing a false equivalence between the racial ignorance of people of color and the racial ignorance of the white majority. ([Location 634](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=634)) - it’s indisputable that on average, white people know a lot less about race and racism than people of color. ([Location 643](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=643)) - pattern of racial inequality ([Location 653](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=653)) - modern race and white supremacy can both be understood as capitalist inventions. ([Location 657](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=657)) - environmental racism, ([Location 677](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=677)) - White supremacy endures, ironically—and chronically—through the widespread erasure of its systemic and chronic nature. ([Location 687](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=687)) - The combination of racist and antiracist ideas is, in fact, one of the most prominent and pernicious methods used to mask or justify continual white dominance and to uphold the “non-racist” pose that has become politically expedient in the wake of World War II and the US civil rights movement. ([Location 699](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=699)) - Note: This nonsense mean? - We got to deal with income and wealth inequality—inequality ([Location 713](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=713)) - overtly racist United States. ([Location 754](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=754)) - dismantle the system of unearned privilege attached to being socially defined as “white.” ([Location 763](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=763)) - White supremacy continues to persist, in part, due to the widespread temptation to only see and condemn other people’s racism—racism is always someone else’s crime. ([Location 776](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=776)) - The only way a nation founded on white supremacy, colonial violence, and hypercapitalism can be framed as a moral entity is to continually devalue the lives of those it ([Location 782](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=782)) - has repeatedly diminished, in our case women, indigenous populations, and black, brown, working-class, and poor people. ([Location 783](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=783)) - the founders’ actual practice of oppression reveals that they used the language of freedom to justify domination. ([Location 793](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=793)) - We must be clear: racism is morally wrong and racists do not deserve to be honored, whether they were members of the Confederacy or the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. ([Location 806](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=806)) - "#MeToo" movement (itself a product of a black woman’s labor), ([Location 827](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=827)) - No, we can’t all just get along, precisely because so many people—including white women and nonblack women of color—refuse to listen to black women. ([Location 877](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=877)) - I know what you’re thinking. ([Location 904](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=904)) - single black mother in a racist, sexist society. ([Location 942](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=942)) - Everyone in my immediate family attended our insular, patriarchal, homophobic Pentecostal church, where black lesbians weren’t exactly guests of honor. ([Location 953](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=953)) - unique forms of violence to which black women are routinely exposed. ([Location 961](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=961)) - Note: From whom? - cisgender) ([Location 993](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=993)) - these patterns and problems are not side issues for those of us interested in challenging and dismantling white supremacy—they’re central. ([Location 1014](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1014)) - Even today, black men like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cornel West seem to be competing for the mantle of “white liberal whisperer,” taking up valuable space and drowning out black women’s voices. ([Location 1056](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1056)) - “black feminism” centers the experiences, knowledge, perspectives, well-being, and empowerment of black women. ([Location 1060](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1060)) - social locations black women occupy in a racist, heterosexist, capitalist society. ([Location 1082](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1082)) - lip service to equality ([Location 1109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1109)) - 53 percent of white women voted in the presidential election for a white racist ([Location 1111](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1111)) - Note: How do you substantiate this claim? - It’s tiresome having to point out again and again how black women are stigmatized and silenced in everyday life. ([Location 1113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1113)) - intersections of racism, sexism, and colonialism. ([Location 1116](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1116)) - “Under colonialism African childhood and womanhood were aggressively denied as part of a conscious effort to dehumanise.” ([Location 1124](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1124)) - systematic violation of black women and girls continues to be a humanitarian crisis around the globe. ([Location 1125](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1125)) - Note: Again, where is the evidence? - she was rigorously ignored. ([Location 1132](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1132)) - Note: Curious modifier. - my own values. ([Location 1143](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1143)) - (white male supremacist) intellectual environments ([Location 1144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1144)) - significant steps toward practicing black feminism. ([Location 1150](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1150)) - I also began heeding the advice of folks who were more “woke” about gender than I was. ([Location 1152](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1152)) - if you’re not thinking about race intersectionally, then you’re not thinking about race intelligently. ([Location 1160](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1160)) - BlackLivesMatter movement. ([Location 1166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1166)) - Black Lives Matter network, ([Location 1167](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1167)) - Note: If a name or slogan requires explanation, it’s not a good name or slogan. - intersectional principles ([Location 1172](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1172)) - cisgender black lesbians ([Location 1179](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1179)) - Note: Isn’t this phrase an internal contradiction? - Complicating our understanding of black womanhood means realizing that if our trans sisters aren’t free from violence and terror, then none of us are free. ([Location 1184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1184)) - In a society that socializes everyone to believe that black women were put here on this earth to be little worker bees who never stop, ([Location 1229](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1229)) - Note: Again, where is the evidence of this statement? - people like Barack Obama want to use the master’s tools to enter the master’s house, wear ([Location 1239](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1239)) - the master’s clothes, get the master’s money, and carry out the master’s agenda. ([Location 1240](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1240)) - impeccably orchestrated set of gestures, immediately embraced (in this exact order) an Asian American woman, a white man, an African American man, a white woman, and another white man. ([Location 1275](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1275)) - spouting some racial stupidity in that interview, I did get a few things right. ([Location 1334](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1334)) - he was already downplaying racism and pushing postracial denial. ([Location 1339](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1339)) - African American Privilege ([Location 1353](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1353)) - history of racism, colonialism, and slavery at school—histories ([Location 1368](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1368)) - when I began to finally shift from being an Obama-bot to a critic of Barack, ([Location 1428](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1428)) - gap between his policies and my ideals became absolutely glaring. ([Location 1438](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1438)) - George Zimmerman’s unpunished killing of Trayvon Martin was also a turning point for me. ([Location 1451](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1451)) - unapologetic black-child-stalker-and-killer ([Location 1457](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1457)) - solved those wily problems of the past. ([Location 1477](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1477)) - The love affair in question wasn’t simply my devotion to the Church of Obama—it ([Location 1499](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1499)) - Obama’s empty promises of hope and change. ([Location 1502](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1502)) - critiquing the fundamental myth upon which this country was built: that black lives don’t ([Location 1507](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1507)) - matter. ([Location 1508](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1508)) - global white supremacy. ([Location 1512](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1512)) - Note: So, we cannot escape racism? - Obama was committed to covering white supremacy and capitalist violence with the veneer of multiculturalism long before his campaign began. ([Location 1524](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1524)) - hegemony of white male capitalists ([Location 1527](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1527)) - neoliberalism: ([Location 1528](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1528)) - neoliberals elevate the economic interests of corporations and billionaires over marginalized people. ([Location 1536](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1536)) - celebrating minority tokenism and equal-opportunity-access to the ruling elite. ([Location 1550](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1550)) - Note: How do you spell gibberish? - Barack Obama is the king of neoliberal tokenism par excellence. ([Location 1561](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1561)) - as if he’s competing for the title of the Most Sold-Out Sell-Out of All Time or the Unclest of Uncle Toms. ([Location 1561](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1561)) - Hillary Clinton’s 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns weaponized imperial feminism for the purpose of misrepresenting the nepotistic rise of one wealthy white woman as the collective empowerment of women everywhere. ([Location 1578](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1578)) - this country’s majority population has proven to be highly resistant to racial and ethnic equality for centuries. ([Location 1604](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1604)) - mired in white nationalism ([Location 1606](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1606)) - Tressie McMillan Cottom, who portrays Obama as a naive, optimistic simpleton who “didn’t know his whites.” ([Location 1614](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1614)) - But Obama knew quite well that racism is endemic and systematic in the United States. ([Location 1645](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1645)) - whites who embrace racist views (consciously or unconsciously) ([Location 1648](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1648)) - For many whites, voting for Obama became proof of moral virtue. ([Location 1651](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1651)) - As president, Obama never acknowledged, much less criticized, white supremacy, ([Location 1663](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1663)) - racist footsteps of every president since Richard Nixon: ([Location 1673](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1673)) - I’m still working on forgiving myself for my own ignorance, but at the very least, I did wake up. ([Location 1680](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1680)) - Trump supporters “don’t know” (or don’t care to know, or simply don’t care) about his racism, sexism, and lies. ([Location 1683](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1683)) - keep people like him ([Location 1692](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1692)) - Note: Like half of him. - it took Obama’s election to demonstrate that a black president could collude with white supremacy. ([Location 1696](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1696)) - Democrats and the Republicans regularly manipulate voters’ racial imaginations while perpetuating systematic racism. ([Location 1711](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1711)) - Barack Obama launched a horrifying campaign to criminalize journalistic activities, undermine First Amendment protections, and shroud government activities behind a veil of unprecedented secrecy. ([Location 1749](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1749)) - brutally tortured people of color, ([Location 1780](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1780)) - Note: Where is the footnote? - more ominous picture: the systematically racist society from which they emerged. ([Location 1849](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1849)) - not just that our nation’s founding principles were explicitly white supremacist, xenophobic, and imperialist. It’s that these principles have been actively maintained, institutionalized, and normalized for generations. ([Location 1852](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1852)) - What this really means is that Trump says what many white people think, ([Location 1873](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1873)) - officers murder unarmed black people for simply existing. ([Location 1876](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1876)) - Note: Where’s the proof? - People of color know exactly what this means. ([Location 1899](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1899)) - Note: Because they read minds? - the white racial frame, ([Location 1907](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1907)) - white folks’ commonly held beliefs and racialized feelings and biases have become deeply embedded in our society and woven into the fabric of our institutions. ([Location 1912](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1912)) - white supremacist “joking” ([Location 1929](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1929)) - “colorblind racism” ([Location 1933](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1933)) - dog-whistle racism ([Location 1937](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1937)) - whites began attempting to be viewed as “politically correct.” ([Location 1942](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1942)) - they practice racist behavior in the comfort of all-white settings. ([Location 1946](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1946)) - Note: Isn’t this a little difficult? - “shithole” slur against African and Caribbean nations. ([Location 1964](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1964)) - lots of racist white people have minority friends and employees. ([Location 1969](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1969)) - racism is systematic and infiltrates our entire political system, ([Location 1975](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1975)) - more supportive policies for African Americans, ([Location 1985](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=1985)) - Trump’s appeal to whites was primarily driven by race—and racism—not class. ([Location 2004](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2004)) - there really are millions of Democrats who oppose racial equality and embrace racist beliefs. ([Location 2011](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2011)) - Note: How do measure this? - the myth that voting for the nation’s first African American president is a “get out of racism free” card ([Location 2026](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2026)) - We’ve already established ([Location 2037](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2037)) - Note: How did you establish that? Who’s the “we?” - white people of all classes feel justified in laying claim to lands and resources ([Location 2041](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2041)) - Note: Don’t blacks benefit from this claim? Do they plan to take over the country and return it to the native Americans? - W. E. B. Du Bois referred to as “the doctrine of the divine right of white people to steal.” ([Location 2043](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2043)) - dictates of racial capitalism ([Location 2048](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2048)) - what I want to emphasize, once again, is that our entire society is built on white supremacy. ([Location 2066](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2066)) - it took me many months of stunned grieving to finally accept that a walking asshat won the presidency. ([Location 2067](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2067)) - Note: Look what you offered as an alternative. - the genocidal white supremacist racism upon which our entire nation is based. ([Location 2082](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2082)) - I’m also a data person, but that the data I see are the everyday lives of people of color who experience ongoing racial terror. ([Location 2086](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2086)) - Note: Where is that data? I missed it. - Ours is a society ([Location 2093](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2093)) - Note: So you claim to be part of this Society? Doesn’t then also make you part of the problem? - White supremacy wants you to look at four hundred years of uninterrupted racial terror and conclude “Things aren’t so bad.” ([Location 2097](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2097)) - Putting lipstick on a corrupt, racist, sexist, colonizing pig is the American way. It certainly didn’t start with Donald Trump. ([Location 2102](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2102)) - Note: Which raises the “why are you still here?“ question. - The United States has consistently treated white supremacist terrorists with more sympathy, respect, and leniency than it has treated civil rights activists. ([Location 2113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2113)) - this Nazi-friendly administration ([Location 2127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2127)) - empirical research convincingly demonstrates that though white attitudes toward certain issues like interracial marriage have changed over time, white people did not suddenly become antiracist or radically alter their views after the 1960s. ([Location 2141](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2141)) - Note: Where is the empirical evidence? - I’m a bit obsessed with the study on “two-faced racism” by Leslie Picca and Joe Feagin—I ([Location 2146](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2146)) - “racial incidents” ([Location 2149](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2149)) - Social norms are maintained through sanctions and rewards. ([Location 2157](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2157)) - The prevailing need to maintain white comfort in all-white (or predominately white) spaces is a recurring theme in the text. ([Location 2165](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2165)) - the profit-driven twenty-four-hour news cycle ([Location 2170](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2170)) - White supremacy was already mainstream. ([Location 2171](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2171)) - Coddling and normalizing bigots is as American as apple pie. ([Location 2211](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2211)) - Ida B. Wells ([Location 2294](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2294)) - One exception that proves the rule is Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, ([Location 2354](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2354)) - In San Francisco, where whites compose only 36 percent of the population, ([Location 2372](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2372)) - systematically misrepresented the intersections of class and race. ([Location 2384](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2384)) - exaggerated images of black criminality and the underreporting of white misconduct. ([Location 2395](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2395)) - over-targeting of black people by police, ([Location 2404](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2404)) - the impact of poverty, unemployment and discrimination on crime.” ([Location 2405](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2405)) - Note: Does this fit with the over reporting of black poverty? - many reporters have become little more than mouthpieces for police departments, ([Location 2411](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2411)) - the neurons in our brain that link blackness with criminality fire. ([Location 2421](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2421)) - The news industry isn’t just a mirror reflecting society’s racism. It’s a megaphone. ([Location 2424](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2424)) - unearned advantages ([Location 2435](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2435)) - fake racial news ([Location 2447](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2447)) - The same Black Lives Matter movement that pushed me to more fully acknowledge our nation’s investment in antiblackness also pushed me to become a more critical consumer of the news. ([Location 2457](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2457)) - heartless denigration of Mike Brown. ([Location 2483](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2483)) - One of these men is depicted as deserving of empathy. The other, as deserving of death: ([Location 2486](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2486)) - systemic racism. ([Location 2511](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2511)) - centuries of racial terrorism and systemic domination ([Location 2521](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2521)) - “Hey, white people, y’all did us wrong.” We know that existed. . . . I don’t even have to keep bringing ([Location 2534](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2534)) - the racial violence that ordinary people of color experience on a daily basis. ([Location 2548](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2548)) - He must have seen the haunting, unending stream of videos showing unarmed black people being slaughtered by police. ([Location 2554](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2554)) - we can’t breathe? ([Location 2555](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2555)) - present-day reality of racial oppression. ([Location 2558](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2558)) - racial terror is still an everyday occurrence. ([Location 2559](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2559)) - the weaponry of terror that maintains white supremacy at the expense of racialized “others.” ([Location 2587](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2587)) - revolutionary love, ([Location 2589](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2589)) - interracial love is not the same thing as antiracist love. ([Location 2657](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2657)) - antiracist dating and friendship, ([Location 2833](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2833)) - uncomfortable truths, ([Location 2848](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2848)) - Note: That’s stretching the definition of truth. - that as long as the United States exists as a settler-colonial state, it will remain racist. ([Location 2868](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2868)) - Note: How do you want to do this historical fact? - human beings’ desire to hoard resources and dominate others. ([Location 2872](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2872)) - “What exactly should I do now?” ([Location 2883](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2883)) - No one is going to be able to explain to you, in a sound bite, what you should do to challenge racism. ([Location 2887](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2887)) - The answer is going to vary for each individual, ([Location 2888](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2888)) - our capacity for creating positive social change depends on developing our racial literacy, ([Location 2893](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2893)) - how race permeates our lives, ([Location 2897](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2897)) - attaining racial literacy ([Location 2902](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2902)) - a racist society ([Location 2907](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2907)) - collective problems and institutionalized inequalities. ([Location 2908](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2908)) - to paraphrase James Baldwin, we can only change those things we are willing to face. ([Location 2911](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2911)) - Du Bois wrote, ominously, “that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States ([Location 2916](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2916)) - Note: Is it possible we suffer from the rise of democracy, and not the fall of democracy. - King’s description of the United States as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” ([Location 2928](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2928)) - The United States would continue murdering, torturing, and raping civilians, children included, in Vietnam for eight years after the Riverside speech— ([Location 2941](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2941)) - Note: Was that the United States are the nations state called “the United States.“ The government does not always act in the best interests of its people. - In order to oppose racism, we have to actually be concerned with oppression writ large. ([Location 2949](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2949)) - system based on violence, immorality, greed, and exploitation. ([Location 2959](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2959)) - Improving our understanding of power relations ([Location 2967](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2967)) - build a less racist—and racially stupid—society. ([Location 2973](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2973)) - Note: A society can be neither racist nor stupid. Those characteristics belong to individuals. - racial oppression is so intrinsically violent, ([Location 2983](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2983)) - As sociologists Dalton Conley, Devah Pager, and Hana Shepherd have already pointed out, the ongoing effects of past discrimination (such as racist policies, redlining, and restrictive housing covenants) would continue to reproduce the racial wealth gap (and related disparities) even in the absence of present-day discriminatory behavior. ([Location 2991](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=2991)) - I am magically untouched by the racist society that socialized me. ([Location 3008](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3008)) - Note: I am more affected by racists like you. - How did you first experience racism? ([Location 3018](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3018)) - Note: What if that has yet to happen? - record racist incidents you see, hear, and observe in your daily life. ([Location 3023](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3023)) - Note: In that record distinguish between acts of individuals and those of groups. - Project Implicit, ([Location 3028](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3028)) - racial socialization, ([Location 3032](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3032)) - Note: You talk about this phrase without defining what it means. - SYSTEMIC RACISM. ([Location 3034](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3034)) - Note: The first exercise in such a group would consist of establishing the existence of systemic racism. - an expert on racism, ([Location 3036](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3036)) - As part of your antiracism curriculum, be sure to integrate an intersectional approach. ([Location 3042](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3042)) - the links between racial injustice, capitalist oppression, and sexism—a ([Location 3045](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3045)) - Note: Again, you need to validate these presuppositions. - Native Americans are killed by police at a higher rate per capita than any other racial or ethnic group. ([Location 3054](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3054)) - Note: This statistic means nothing without an answer to the question “why.” - antiracist experts ([Location 3080](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3080)) - epistemology of racial ignorance to an epistemology of racial awareness. ([Location 3081](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3081)) - Note: There’s something horribly wrong with this phrase. I’m not sure at this time how to articulate it. Look up the definition of epistemology. - youth have an important role to play in dismantling white supremacy. ([Location 3106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3106)) - Note: It seems that the only evidence of white supremacy consists of the fact that white still out number “people of color.” So, what solution are you suggesting: killing off enough whites in order to level the proverbial playing field? - “The powerless, by definition, can never be ‘racists,’ ([Location 3113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3113)) - Only people who belong to a racially dominant group (or groups) can benefit from systemic racism. ([Location 3118](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3118)) - Note: Thus, by being white I have no hope. - it is absolutely true that nonwhites can perpetuate racist ideas, can cooperate with white supremacy, and can express prejudiced beliefs. ([Location 3120](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3120)) - y’all ([Location 3136](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3136)) - homies, ([Location 3136](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3136)) - subject to the terror of racial violence) ([Location 3138](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3138)) - The effects were so strong that students’ classroom performance actually decreased when they were told that their eye color made them less intelligent. ([Location 3143](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3143)) - Note: Doesn’t this affirm the treating black people as inferior’s or excepting they were inferior roll makes them perfect form less well. - DWB—“driving while black.” ([Location 3151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3151)) - Note: Please cite this law. - dismantle white supremacy ([Location 3158](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3158)) - Note: You have closed all options to dismantling white supremacy other than killing off whites. - insight that racism is structural and systemic. ([Location 3159](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3159)) - Note: This insight represents the primary flaw in this book. The authors defined neither System nor structure. - economic justice. ([Location 3166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3166)) - Note: What the hell does this mean? - organizing to abolish capitalist oppression, prisons, and even the police. ([Location 3169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3169)) - we will have to stop overvaluing whiteness and undervaluing people of color. ([Location 3193](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3193)) - shared wealth, prosperity, and equity. ([Location 3195](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3195)) - actively shifting resources to marginalized people—and ([Location 3196](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3196)) - proclivity for hierarchies and feelings of superiority, ([Location 3223](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B078LQJ982&location=3223)) - Note: Hierarchies are more than human proclivity.