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White People Make Everything About Race
A podcast for well meaning white folks, trying to make sense of their own racial identity.
Episodes 1-6 of season 2, “Is White Privilege a Lie?" are available now!
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If you’re white like me, at some point you’ve probably been told it’s not polite to talk about race. But have you ever really thought about race? About your own race? About what it means for you?
Welcome to a show that asks the question: what does it mean to be well meaning and white in a society that has failed to fully address racial disparities?
Learn more at whitepeoplemakeeverythingaboutrace.com.
White People Make Everything About Race
Season 2, Episode 6: The Five Phantoms of White Privilege; Part 3, Access to Systems and Structures
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Despite the bootstraps myth. We all rely on society’s systems and structures in some way to access opportunity.
Our social systems — from health care to education to banking and transportation — are not natural or organic. The have been designed. And the design of those systems produces the outcomes that we get.
And, by any measure, the outcomes we see in today’s America are deeply out of step with our stated American values. They are deeply out of step with freedom and liberty for everyone, deeply out of step creating communities of belonging and opportunity. And those outcomes that these systems produced are racialized.
In this episode, we’re going to discuss the third or our five phantoms of white privilege: access. The ways that the systems and structure of our society the provide disproportionate opportunity to folks who are white identified: 1) by giving us greater access to doors of opportunity not open to folks of color; 2) by allowing us expectations of access to the public sphere, public spaces and public responsiveness, in ways that folks of color can not assume; 3) by providing us access to choices that are closed of to folks of color.
Show Notes:
Boosts and Blocks Timeline. United For a Fair Economy. https://www.faireconomy.org/boostsandblocks
Black Americans Have a Clear Vision for Reducing Racism but Little Hope It Will Happen: Many say key U.S. institutions should be rebuilt to ensure fair treatment. By Kiana Cox and Khadijah Edwards. August 30, 2022. https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2022/08/30/black-americans-have-a-clear-vision-for-reducing-racism-but-little-hope-it-will-happen/
https://daily.jstor.org/calling-the-police-without-trusting-the-police/
The New Jim Crow. Michelle Alexander. https://newjimcrow.com/
13th. Ava DuVernay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
More than Prejudice: Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions in Critical Race Theory. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 2015, Vol. 1(1) 75 –89. American Sociological Association 2014 DOI: 10.1177/2332649214557042 p.80.
This Supreme Court Case Made School District Lines A Tool For Segregation. July 25, 20195:00 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. By Elissa Nadworny, Cory Turner, https://www.npr.org/2019/07/25/739493839/this-supreme-court-case-made-school-district-lines-a-tool-for-segregation
The Racist History Of “School Choice”. Forbes. Raymond Pierce, May 06, 2021. https://www.forbes.com/sites/raymondpierce/2021/05/06/the-racist-history-of-school-choice/
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard. Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom, Working Paper 26316. http://www.nber.org/papers/w26316 National Bureau of Economic Research.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Heather McGhee. https://heathermcghee.com
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland. Jonathan Metzl. https://www.jonathanmetzl.com/
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