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White people, in this case, should consider whether it's worth voicing discomfort at tactics against racist systems – or to rather to save their criticism for racist systems directly.
Even for those born in the UK, though, it is difficult to escape from an overriding sense of otherness that is perpetuated by oppressive racist systems and language.
Even before that, state and local health departments struggled to understand social health disparities based on race and income and how to effect change without reinforcing oppressive and racist systems.
DiAngelo addresses her book mostly to white people, and she reserves her harshest criticism for white liberals like herself (and like me), whom she sees as refusing to acknowledge their own participation in racist systems.
I find the reality of American racism unbearable: the legacy of slavery; the institutional discrimination that is so pervasive; the scourge of mass incarceration of black Americans, with its collateral damage on families; the ongoing blight of housing segregation; the role of law enforcement in furthering racist systems and hierarchies; all this, and so much more.
That's what privilege does; it allows space -- demands space -- for the perpetuation of racist systems.
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That is the discomfort a just society must hold: That racism and injustice are systemic, structural and ubiquitous and yet a particular decision within a racist system may still be just.
Of course, that racist system ended 17 years ago with Nelson Mandela's election.
It's a racist system, and it's not designed for African-Americans".
Most white people deny that they enjoy the privileges of a racist system.
There is a racist system in place that sustains and reproduces itself," she says.
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