OVERT WHITE SUPREMACY
(socially unacceptable)
lynching • hate crimes
swastikas • blackface
racist jokes • racial slurs • KKK
the n-word • neo-nazis • burning crosses
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Calling the police on black people • white silence • colorblindness •
white parents self-segregating neighborhoods and schools • Eurocentric curriculum • white savior complex • spiritual bypassing • education funding from property taxes • discriminatory lending • mass incarceration • respectability politics • tone policing • racist mascots • disbelieving experiences of Black, Indigenous, & People of Color (BIPOC) • paternalism • victim blaming • hiring discrimination • bootstrap theory • school-to-prison pipeline • police murder of BIPOC • virtuous victim narrative • higher infant & maternal mortality rate for BIPOC • BIPOC as Halloween costumes • racial profiling • denial of white privilege • prioritizing white voices as experts • treating kids of color as adults • inequitable healthcare • assuming good intentions are enough • not challenging racist jokes • cultural appropriation • Eurocentric beauty standards • anti-immigration policies • considering Black English (BE) “uneducated” • denial of racism • tokenism • English-only initiatives • self-appointed white allyship • exceptionalism • fearing people of color because they are people of color • police brutality • fetishizing BIPOC • meritocracy myth • Columbus Day • claiming reverse-racism • weaponized whiteness • expecting BIPOC to teach white people about BIPOC • white guilt • believing our society is post-racial • housing discrimination • “Make American Great Again” • “You don’t sound black” • “Don’t blame me; I never owned slaves!” • “But what about me?” • “All Lives Matter” • “You’re so articulate” • “But we’re all one big human family”/”There’s only one human race”