Why Admitting Privilege Is Key to Racial Healing
“We don’t hear white people talking about how slavery has negatively affected them,” says Nancy Wong, a Baha'i living in Chicago. She shared that although she has many white friends who know that they’re ancestors were enslavers, none of them acknowledge that their feeling of entitlement is a direct result of slavery. In this short clip from the “Race Unity Project,” Nancy discusses how important it is for white people to address their legacy of privilege. “In order to heal, people of European descent in this country will have to address their illnesses in a way that is not shameful,” she says. Watch as Nancy shares how shame often hinders white people from talking about racism and being committed to abolishing it.
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