Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

The second week of the challenge focuses on anti-Blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation, with a focus on color blindness, anti-Blackness against black women and men, and anti-Blackness against children. Building on the first week’s work of understanding how whiteness provides benefits and privilege under white supremacy, this week shifts its focus to how racism against BIPOC can appear.

Saad shares a warning with participants to not share their journaling and reflections this week with BIPOC, who may find the content particularly upsetting or triggering. Rather than sharing with BIPOC, participants should consider how their own conscious awareness of these ideas can be used to better understand white supremacy’s reach. She also suggests that bi- or multi-racial participants be especially careful with this week’s work, which will be much more emotional and difficult than the previous week.

Day 8 begins by defining race-based “color blindness”—a white person’s declaration they cannot see color and race, and by extension they do not treat people differently because of their race. Saad cites her confusion as a kid when hearing white parents tell white children not to say out loud that she was Black, noting that it is often white children that are taught not to point out racial differences.