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Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it...

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and interrupting racism in our lives.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

Many of us actively working to interrupt racism continually hear complaints about the 'gotcha' culture of white anti-racism. There is a stereotype that we are looking for every incident we can find so we can spring out, point our fingers,...

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more...

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.

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Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race...

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a good-bad proposition - that if we're good we can't be part of it, that being uncomfortable means you're...

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.

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Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said...

Quotes by Robert Guillaume

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather...

Quotes by Robert Guillaume

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

Quotes by Robert Guillaume

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