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A primer on white privilege and hateful racism


Maria Niles wrote a crash course on the concept and reality of white privilege and racism, especially as it’s playing out in the presidential elections, in her BlogHer post, Racism and the race: What’s white privilege got to do with it?

I first saw the latest lightening rod that reveals how alive and well the racism -ism is on Plunderbund and Maria mentions it as well.

Again, we’re facing the “it was a joke” and “lighten up” defenses over something that shows how deepseated this particular -ism is.

I appreciate Maria offering a great list of reading material to help people understand why those excuses for inexcusable insults fail.

By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:23 am September 14th, 2008 in BlogHer, Race, Social Issues 

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