“I want to move people away from thinking of racism as a feeling of hatred, because it’s rare to find someone who blatantly hates people of color. But the impact of racial bias isn’t lessened because it’s not blatant. If someone denies me a job because I’m “not the right fit,” without realizing that their idea of the right fit is almost always a white person, it doesn’t hurt me any less than if I’m told, “I won’t hire you because you’re black.” Racism is not necessarily an intention or a feeling. It is a system that produces predictable results.” —Ijeoma Oluo
Mark Leviton, “White Lies: Ijeoma Oluo On Privilege, Power, And Race,” The Sun, December 2018. https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/516/white-lies.
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