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We surely could cover the earth with the endless list of questions formed in a multitude of versions from White Americans regarding what African-Americans want in this society.

To anyone reading this article who ponder the same question my response is as follows. Will another explanation make any difference? Explanations have been given spanning hundreds of years.

The history of the African American experience is unique to any other experience in this country as documented by historians, activist, authors, poets, preachers, demonstrators, warriors, and advocates. There are hundreds whose work you may choose to study.

Here are a few for your consideration: Carter G. Woodson ( 1875-1950), Charles H. Wesley (1891-1987), Rayford W. Logan (1897-1982), Nathan Irvin Huggins (1927-1989) Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995, John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) John W. Blassingame, Sr. (1940-2000).

The question has been sufficiently answered by organization such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Urban League , Rainbow Push Coalition, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) The Innocence Project, and Black Lives Matter.

By the time of the American Revolution (17751783), the status of enslaved people had been institutionalized as a racial caste system associated with African ancestry. The 13th Amendment, adopted on December 18, 1865, officially abolished slavery, but freed Black peoples status in the post-war remained precarious. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was nothing less than a second emancipation.

Present day White American activist Tim Wise explains it in a 2002 essay: n*gger was and is a term used by whites to dehumanize blacks, to imply their inferiority, to put them in their place if you will, the same cannot be said of honky: after all, you cant put white people in their place when they own the place to begin with. Power is like body armour, Tim continues. And while not all white folks have the same degree of power, there is a very real extent to which all of us have more than we need vis--vis people of colour: at least when it comes to racial position, privilege and perceptions. At the root of it all, is there really a question regarding what African-American want in this society or is the issue resistance, denial, solicitude, prevarication of information, and preserving of the status quo.

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*One thing feels different about the current protests we are seeing following the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery: the composition of the crowds.In some parts of the country, white Americans are showing up. They are protesting, taking the knee, and flooding social media. There seems to be a renewed call for white accountability. But is posting and protesting enough? And will this energy last?

Trymaine Lee talks to Tim Wise, an anti-racist essayist, author and educator, about what white people can do to dismantle the systems of inequality in this country.

Hosted byPulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalistTrymaine Lee, Into America is an NBC News original podcast that elevates the voices of citizens and captures the impact of the pressing issues of our time.See below for select excerpts of the conversation and listennow wherever you get your podcasts.

SELECT EXCERPTS FROM THE PODCAST

SYSTEMIC RACISM

TRYMAINE LEE: What should white people do to dismantle a racist system erected for them? The thing thats creating so much of the stress and the anxiety that white folks, ironically, have about even sitting down and talking to black and brown folks about racism is racism.

TIM WISE: I think theyre white folks who actually would like to have those kinds of cross-racial, cross-cultural, cross-ethnic connections with people. But they dont and they dont understand why. And its not because theyre bad people and its not because the people they want to be friends with dont want to be friends with them. Its that we have a society that is divided as to such an extent that its incredibly hard. If I have a fundamentally different set of realities than you, how am I supposed to be able to sit down and talk with you about anything meaningful? And if I cant do that. How can I really have connection and friendship? Theres a deep irony, but its also sort of heartbreaking.

WHITE PRIVILEGE

TRYMAINE LEE: But can you explain for folks who dont understand how white privilege works and what it actually is? And white privilege sounds soft, but it still leads to the oppression of black folks, right? I mean, is there a real difference in the way it operates from white supremacy and white privilege? Is there any difference with one simply a soft sounding extension of the other?

TIM WISE: Yeah, I think that white privilege is really a symptom of white supremacy. Right. In other words, if you have a system of domination and subordination that makes one group, whatever, that group is supreme in terms of power and access and opportunity, then by definition that group is going to experience certain relative advantages and privileges over all other groups. But its important that we think of it almost like, you know, a taxonomy and a hierarchy where white supremacy is the overarching concept. And within that umbrella of white supremacy, you have a sense of like white privilege. Right. You have a symptom like discrimination, like discrimination is also a symptom of white supremacy. Its not the problem in and of itself, but its a symptom.

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WHITE ACCOUNTABILITY

TRYMAINE LEE: Ive been hearing this term white accountability more and more over the last several days. This idea of white people looking at each other, look at themselves in the mirror and holding themselves accountable for the state of things. What is white accountably look like? Join the protests. What is it?

TIM WISE: Accountability means taking your cue from the community that has the most to lose. Accountability means following the lead of people of color. And what people of color need from us right now is for us to do nothing in these protests thats going to hurt them. Thats going to blow back on them. So thats number one. The second thing for accountability is we have to operate outside the realm of the individual act. Theres gonna come a point when were going to need to get back in community and meeting with people and really talking with people and sharing ideas in a collective sense, because the thing about activism and fighting injustice, it can be very, very isolating and it can be very exhausting. And God knows for people who have that privilege, any level of discomfort. Right, folks, Ill throw in the towel. Black folks dont have the luxury of getting time and they do get tired. Right. People of color get tired, but you cant throw in the towel because your life is at stake. But white folks, man, if were doing this and we feel isolated and it gets too hard, I know what were going to do.

TRYMAINE LEE: When folks see white privilege in action or ignorance in action, or racism in action, should white people confront other white people about whats happening? Should they have to be intentional about confronting racism wherever it lies?

TIM WISE: Oh, I certainly think we should confront racism when we see it. But I think the problem is that a lot of times the racism that is confronting all in that terminology is only the most obvious and blatant. Now, certainly we ought to do it. I mean, its very important that if you have friends or colleagues or family that are making racist comments, telling racist jokes, engaged in obviously discriminatory behavior, you should try to interrupt that. You should practice in your own head ahead of time how you might do it. But I think the bigger problem is so much of the racism that exists and stuff that really perpetuates inequality in this country, is the kind of stuff that is oftentimes much more subtle and institutional.

THE TALK

TRYMAINE LEE: There are a lot of people, journalists included, who ask and have been asking black folks about the talk they have with the children, you know, capital letters, the talk about police and how to respond. And more broadly, just how to engage with white society, white people, period. But my question is always, Do white people have a talk with their children about race and race relations and how to move and engage with other people? Should white people right now be right parents be talking to their kids about race and white privilege? And what should that sound like?

TIM WISE: Well, the first part of the question, the answer, sadly, is no. Most white folks dont have that talk with their children. I know that for me, of course, that was never going to be an option for my children. I didnt want to hit them over the head with it all the time, because I do think one of the things that helped me was not just a parent that talked, but a parent that acted. And sometimes the actions are more important than the words

So the talks are important and we should certainly have them. And there were resources out there for white folks who want to figure out how to talk to their kids. Theres a great book called Raising White Kids that talks about how to have this conversation with white children in a way thats really meaningful. But, but we must do it. And in our home, you know, I remember those talks. I started having those talks with my children when they were really young.

CHANGE

TRYMAINE LEE: In this moment were in right now. Do you think George Floyd protest included or not, that white America wants the change that black folks are calling for?

TIM WISE: Are there enough white folks that are prepared to join in solidarity with peoples of color, particularly with black folks, to push for a different way of living? And are there enough white folks that are prepared to find a different way of living in the skin that were in and fighting for pluralism and multiracial democracy? I happen to believe that thats possible, but I have to also remain agnostic about it because I havent ever seen it.

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In the days after George Floyds murder, more information emerged about the alleged crime that lead to his arrest. He paid for a pack of cigarettes, reports claimed, with a counterfeit $20 dollar bill. I didnt watch the full video of Floyds death at the hands of Minneapolis law enforcement, and neither did Mark McCoy.

What he did do, days later, is tweet. McCoy, a white professor at Southern Methodist University, explained that he was once also caught spending a counterfeit $20 dollar bill. For him, the arrest had meant a night in jail, and a dinner party anecdote for the next several decades. It didnt take a demonstrative video of people stepping back or forward in accordance with their social circumstances, or a timeline full of Black people explaining how theyd repeatedly been mistreated, overlooked and undervalued compared to their white counterparts, but 245 characters for a white man to succinctly articulate the scope of which this country favors the color beige. In under 50 words, Mark McCoy unraveled white privilege.

What I did, days later, was find myself at a dinner table with a conservative. Always gravitating to the coasts, its easy to nestle snugly into a near bullet-proof liberal bubble an ideological echo-chamber of sensitivity and awareness. But now, two feet of wood away during what is potentially the largest civil rights movement in history, sat another white person popping it. He didnt see racism as a tangible issue, because he couldnt visibly see it. Obvious acts of discrimination or disrespect werent in his workplace, he explained, his neighborhood or among his friends, and its just too depressing to engage with hard news. One by one, everyone moved away from our conversation, until it was just the two of us.

His problem with acknowledging the existence of white privilege was he didnt really feel like he had it. He may not have been academically-inclined enough for tertiary education or been able to afford one; he may have worked hard at underpaid jobs with long hours and no insurance; a parent may have abandoned him; he may have been physically assaulted; emotionally abused; overweight and nothing had been handed to him. There may be many, many circumstances in which the system hasnt benefited him, but whiteness, well thats just something hes never had to worry, or even think about.

For anti-racism activist and racial justice consultant, Maggie Potapchuck, this dinner table discussion is all too familiar. During the 1986 World Series, Potapchuk was studying at the University of Massachusetts. She watched as, after the game, white footballers beat up one of the Black residents in her dorm, before threatening other students of color with baseball bats. In that moment Potapchuk, a white woman, experienced a point of no return.

When white people hear the term white privilege, they sometimes hear it as disrespect of an individuals hard work and success, explains Potapchuk, who has written several well-referenced resources on the subject. White people still experience poverty, but their white privilege means [theyre sheltered from] the depths of poverty Black people might experience in the same conditions as them. There will still be different access to opportunity than there would be for a person of color.

Scholar, scientist, activist and author of White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh blames this mentality on the individualism fostered by a hyper-capitalist culture. Some think that the subject of privilege brings them blame, shame, and guilt, she adds. This is because they have been taught in the US to think only in terms of individuals, not systems. So, they take personally all references to their privilege.

In Invisible Knapsack, McIntosh addresses all the ways in which she enjoys positive prejudice, and therefore privilege, as a white person. Many are distressingly basic, such as, I can be pretty sure that my neighbors will be neutral or pleasant to me, or, I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race. They encompass financial reliability, media representation and career advancement.

The reason these privileges are so entrenched in our social architecture is because they were first written into founding US law, says Jacqueline Battalora, attorney and professor, who penned Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today. You will find no reference to people called white people before 1681 in law within the English colonies of North America, reveals the former Chicago Police Officer.

Battalora specifically references the 1790 law of US naturalization, which was originally only accessible to white people. For 150 years, immigrants who were seen as white were able to access US citizenship simply because they were seen as white they did not have to ask for it, they may not even have wanted it.

There is so little understanding of US history and law that provided structural advantage after structural advantage to white people, she continues. Even though the laws have changed, the consequences of those laws continue to create wider inequality along racial lines.

The reason so many white academics have specialized in unpacking white privilege for white audiences is because white privilege isnt a Black persons issue. Although they do, again and again, it shouldnt be another reality Black people are forced to break down for our benefit. Potapchuks 2005 paper, Doing the Work: Unearthing our Own White Privilege, is aptly titled. Acknowledgement does take work, research, discourse and its on us to do it. But theres a reason we dont. Awareness of your power, and others vulnerabilities, is unpleasant. The same way a man may feel ill-at-ease walking behind a woman in a dark alley knowing she is wary of him, its not particularly comfortable to recognize you have been benefiting from and maybe even watering a society that holds others down so you can stand on their backs.

We need to be vigilant in developing a lens for seeing our privilege and not rely solely on people of different races to directly teach us, Potapchuk continues. Guilt and shame cloud the explanation because it is difficult to accept that ones attitudes and behavior caused another persons disadvantage. It is even more shocking to think how ones government and community institutions have created and reinforced these oppressive policies and laws.

It is difficult. Guilt is uncomfortable, and when were not used to discomfort, defenses arise. We might even get angry, because hey, we didnt create the system. Its not our fault we were born looking like this. But we shouldnt feel guilty for whats outside our control its not only unnecessary, its counterproductive. Racial justice expert Jamie Utt-Schumaker, who has focused on educating white people for the last decade, references Michael Kaufmans The Construction of Masculinity to describe the futility of guilt when it comes to facilitating any kind of shift: From a position of insecurity and guilt, people do not change or inspire others to change.

Too often we are treating privilege as something personal and interpersonal rather than systemic, Utt-Schumaker advises. This lends itself to an individualistic approach. But privilege is a manifestation of systems of oppression Remind someone that they shouldnt feel guilty for their privilege but encourage them to act to undermine the system by refusing to simply live in their unchecked privilege.

It is not unusual for white people to feel defensive, Potapchuk echoes, continuing, It is part of a mechanism that protects our image and self-esteem. Part of the process of individual change is being uncomfortable. It is challenging and sometimes overwhelming to take all of these messages in. Take time to reflect, discuss and struggle with the material and work to not avoid it or dismiss it.

There are various interpersonal techniques you can use when trying to address privilege on a micro-level. McIntosh suggests appealing to peoples morality, and then asking for reflection. If a person recognizes they are privileged, they may be willing to bring time, attention and money to bear on changing power relations in small or large ways.

McIntosh has seen an uptick in requests for her resources on privilege, which include exercises for family, friends and colleagues. One encourages a conversation wherein both parties list ways in which they might experience unearned advantage, or unearned disadvantage.

It is good to stay autobiographical and not judgmental. It's good to testify about what you were raised to believe and how you have changed and why. Then it is good to listen to other people doing the same kind of testimony. We all have our journeys. Preachiness is not effective for raising awareness. Self-righteousness is not a help.

Utt-Schumaker agrees. Hes seen two strategies prove effective: the meet people where they are, which is checking in to broaden ideas within more intimate relationships, and then more generally, pushing folks into a certain degree of discomfort by offering a racial justice perspective consistently.

We have to question what our goal is, he adds. If it seems unlikely to change someone who is vocally racist, the goal for me is helping to reduce the harm that they are likely to enact against people of color with their views. With a person who is apathetic, appealing to their values is key: Helping them see it in alignment with their own values to begin to address racism in themselves and their lives.

For her part, Battalora uses history to encourage empathy from the apathetic, recalling the words of activist Tim Wise: "whiteness has been done to all of us.

It is our ignorance of so much US history that allows so many to deny or reject the notion of white privilege, she says. A historical lens makes it absolutely clear that white privilege has been baked into the structure of the nation from its founding.

Nonetheless, we cannot assume we get it, Potapchuk claims, adding that we can be blinded by our own self-perception as a good white person. Just because we meant no harm doesn't mean that there was none. We need to take responsibility, avoid going into immediate defensive mode and focus on listening to another persons reality.

The reality is, at any given moment we might make a mistake, enact a microaggression or even say something racist but we cant avoid the dialogue for fear of misspeaking. Instead, we can lean into the mistakes, the discomfort, the learning, to ultimately respond and adapt. Stay consistently curious about others stories, and empathize as to how that may have informed their beliefs. We might pride ourselves on our upstanding values, our liberalism, our commitment to equity or justice, but we should never stop working. Because even if privilege pulls the blinds, injustice doesnt disappear.

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As Americans continue protesting systemic racism and police brutality following the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others, people are also seeking ways to educate themselves.

There are endless resources about the racial discrimination that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) face on a daily basis. This list is just a start. Thanks to the powerful voices of legendary writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, and relatively new authors such as Ta-Nehisi Coates and Layla F. Saad, you can become a better ally in the pursuit of equality among all races.

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Toni Morrison's Home earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature, arguably the highest honor an author can hope to receive. The publisher calls Morrison's protagonist, Frank Money, a modern Odysseusas he escapes his small town by joining the army, only to return to the South in search of his sister, encounteringplenty of pitfalls along the way. While Morrison's depiction of 1950s America was conceived in her mind, she paints a vivid picture of what the Black experience was back thenand in some cases, even now.

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Michelle Obama takes the reader through life moments big and small in Becomingstarting with her childhood on the Southside of Chicago and all the way to the White House as First Lady. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, which has since been adapted into a popular Netflix documentary, readers will see through deeply personal accounts how she became one of the most admired women in the world.

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Author Walter McMillian, who is now the director of theEqual Justice Initiative, started out as a lawyer.Just Mercy is the truestory of one of his first clients,Walter McMillian, "a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didnt commit." Named one of the most influential books of the decade by CNN, it's a powerful account of the disturbing bias that exists within the criminal justice system.

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Written by civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander,The New Jim Crow "spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations" that were inspired by her core thesis:"We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. It has spent more than 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, helped inspire the Marshall Project, and earned numerous prizes.

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It's hard to talk to children about racial discrimination.Author Jennifer Harvey aims to make it easier in Raising White Kids. Whether you're a parent, teacher, church leader, or community group organizer, this handbook "offers age-appropriate insights for teaching children how to address racism when they encounter it and tackles tough questions about how to help white kids be mindful of racial relations while understanding their own identity and the role they can play for justice."

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Over in the U.K., most of the conversations around race were led by white people. That's not the way it's supposed to work!Which is why Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race. An extension of a blog post that went viral with so many people eager to share their own experiences, this book takes on"issues from eradicated Black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race."

If You Still Need Examples of White Privilege

If you want to see what it looks like when someone really owns their white privilege, look no further than Tim Wise (but actually, start here and then keep looking further). Here, he "examines what it really means to be white in a nation created to benefit people who are 'white like him.' You'll walk away with a better understanding of how non-BIPOCs can aid in the essential work of racial equality.

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NORTH NEWTON A 2018 documentary featuring a widely acclaimed anti-racist educator is the third offering in the 2019-20 KIPCOR Film Series.

The Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Bethel College will screen The Great White Hoax Feb. 9 at 3 p.m. in Krehbiel Auditorium in Luyken Fine Arts Center.

Wichita native, long-time journalist, and former director of The Kansas African American Museum Mark McCormick will lead the talk-back session following the 72-minute film.

It is free and open to the public, with a freewill offering taken to support the work of KIPCOR.

The Great White Hoax looks at the politics of white grievance, white supremacy and racial scapegoating with the help of teacher and author Tim Wise.

The film explores how American political leaders of both parties have been tapping into white anxiety, stoking white grievance and scapegoating people of color for decades to divide and conquer working class voters and consolidate power.

While its primary focus is Donald Trumps race-baiting 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, the film also widens its scope to show how Trumps charged rhetoric about African Americans, Latinos and Muslims fits within a longstanding historical pattern of racism and racial scapegoating that goes back centuries in American politics.

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