{"id":569084,"date":"2021-06-21T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569084"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:22:04","slug":"washington-post-video-understand-your-whiteness-white-supremacy-benefits-you-its-an-important-part-of-self-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-video-understand-your-whiteness-white-supremacy-benefits-you-its-an-important-part-of-self-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Video: Understand Your Whiteness. White Supremacy Benefits You. It\u2019s An Important Part Of Self-Awareness."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-post-video-understand-your-whiteness-white-supremacy-benefits-you-its-an-important-part-of-self-awareness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569084&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-175646326.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/the-lily\/what-is-white-racial-identity-and-why-is-it-important\/2021\/06\/18\/a7db496c-02a7-4128-9f4e-0f924df83976_video.html-2\">video<\/a> promoted prominently on the website of The Washington Post, titled, \u201cWhy is White racial identity important,\u201d whites are told that white supremacism is \u201cstructural\u201d among white people, that \u201cunderstanding your whiteness is integral to becoming self-aware as a white person,\u201d that an \u201canti-racist culture does not exist among white people,\u201d that white people in \u201cwhite accountability groups\u201d are \u201cunpacking wrong things that we have been taught in history class\u201d and have experienced \u201ca period of deep shame,\u201d and finally, that \u201cwhite people don\u2019t really understand racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video, which the Post states revolves around \u201cwhy understanding your whiteness and the ways that white supremacy benefits you is an important part of becoming self aware,\u201d begins with a black man opining, \u201cRacism, racialization, white body supremacism, is not episodic; it\u2019s structural. Remember that there were thousands of George Floyds before the one that you saw. Your bodily response to this horror, right, is not the same thing as you dealing with the structural aspects of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Host Nicole Ellis then pontificates: \u201cGeorge Floyd\u2019s death became a deeply personal and racial tragedy for many Americans. For the first time, white people were becoming aware of their whiteness and the systemic ways that white supremacy affects all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor and psychologist Rebecca Toporek chimes in: \u201cWhite people in particular get aroused, get upset, say this is unjust, this isn\u2019t right, this shouldn\u2019t happen, here\u2019s like an awakening that happens. And so part of their racial identity development is seeing that awakening. What they do with it is really the next piece of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellis explains, \u201cIn this episode, we\u2019re tackling white racial identity, and why understanding your whiteness is integral to becoming self-aware as a white person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Arias, crisis interventionist, claims, \u201cI am originally from a small town in Oklahoma; whiteness was the default and whiteness was the comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the structure in racism and the way that it\u2019s maintained is to keep us from recognizing that racism is a part of our daily lives, and so it\u2019s a longer-term process of looking at your understanding of yourself in the world; both historically but also contextually: the family you live in, the community you live in, and what role whiteness plays in that,\u201d Toporek lectures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more you dive into that, the more I\u2019m really realizing how deeply rooted racism is into, like, my everyday thought process,\u201d Arias laments. \u201cNo matter how much you work at that there\u2019s still even almost work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA living, embodied, anti-racist culture does not exist among white people,\u201d says the African American man. \u201cWhite people gotta start getting together specifically around race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite accountability groups are really helpful in terms of having a place to process, having a group of people whose responsibility it is to call me on things or to challenge me,\u201d Toporek enthuses.<\/p>\n<p>Ilyse Kennedy, trauma therapist, laments: \u201cWe\u2019re unpacking wrong things that we have been taught in history class. I realized that I needed to back and unpack and reorganize everything that I had learned because it was completely through a white lens. Most of us, in doing this work, have experienced this, where there\u2019s a period of deep shame for being white and acknowledging the harm that our ancestors have caused. And that is a very legitimate piece of this work. And \u2014 we can\u2019t ask people of color to hold our hands through the shame piece; that needs to happen with other white people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you do that for one, two, three, four, five years, right, you end up with actually a community that is aligned with each other,\u201d the black man intones.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis asks, \u201cIn theory that sounds like a good idea, but I guess I\u2019m curious to hear, like, what are some of the pitfalls or risks that you run if that\u2019s the only step you take? \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Toporek says, \u201cThe biggest answer is white people don\u2019t really understand racism. (laughs) Hence, so if I\u2019m relying on other white people to teach me about racism that can only go so far. \u2026 I only best understand racism by talking to people who are directly impacted by racism from different perspectives. So in addition to having white accountability groups and white accountability buddies, it\u2019s also really important to have sustained and meaningful relationships with people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arias, lamenting again: \u201cI don\u2019t have the ability, to like, inherently name things as upholding white supremacy or being racist. My whiteness is going to show up at different points in my life and at different points in my relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellis presses, \u201cBut is it fair or healthy to be seeking out relationships with people just to have a diverse network? For I feel like, for people of color, you\u2019re kind of constantly trying to gauge whether or not it\u2019s worth it to be vulnerable or share how someone hurt you when your white colleagues or coworkers or friends mess up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a different cost for my friends of color to be in a relationship with me,\u201d Toporek \u00a0concludes. \u201cSo I think one of the things that\u2019s really important is ongoing, being a friend on an ongoing basis for lots of different things, not just like, thinking about racism as a part of our friendship when there\u2019s something horrible that happens. Those relationships are, number one, for me to be there for them as them for me, it\u2019s a relationship, and so it should be reciprocal, but also so I have a broader understanding of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy admits, \u201cEverything I thought about how I existed in my white body in the world was very wrong and I needed this new lens to see the world through. So I think that been a big piece of my own work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video promoted prominently on the website of The Washington Post, titled, \u201cWhy is White racial identity important,\u201d whites are told that white supremacism is \u201cstructural\u201d among white people, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280824,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-175646326.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Washington Post Video: Understand Your Whiteness. White Supremacy Benefits You. 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