The politics of whiteness transcends the colour of anyone's skin. It is an occupying force in the mind. It is a political ideology that is concerned with maintaining power through domination and exclusion. Anyone can buy into it, just like anyone can choose to challenge it. [...] Those who perceive every critique of white-dominated politics to be an attack of them as a white person are probably part of the problem.

Faced with a collective forgetting, we must fight to remember.

Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember

Idistinctly remember a debate about whether racism was simplydiscrimination, or discrimination plus power. Thinking about power made merealise that racism was about so much more than personal prejudice. It wasabout being in the position to negatively affect other people’s life chances.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.

Racism is often confused with prejudice, and is sometimes used interchangeably

Racism does not go both ways. There are unique forms of discrimination that are backed up by entitlement, assertion and, most importantly, supported by a structural power strong enough to scare you into complying with the demands of the status quo. We have to recognise this.

Whiteness in the press had positioned itself for too long as the self-appointed, self-referential arbiter of racial problems, in which it pondered why these black and brown communities were so prone to violence and poverty, without a shred of self-awareness.