Now, I could have written a book that just tsk-tsked other White liberals for what they’re doing wrong. But that would have been dishonest. I spent a lifetime believing that, as a well-meaning White liberal, if I just read the right books and yelled loudly and had enough Black friends then I was “doing the work.” And it wasn’t until I began examining my relationship not just to Black, Brown and Indigenous communities but other White people as well that it started to click for me: “Oh, this is why I haven’t been all that useful!” and also, “Oh, this is why I’m so isolated from community.”
Categorizing your Whites - by lyz - Men Yell at Me
