Hi there everyone, I'm white...

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80. Good job!

My partner lectures to universities on this. She's very good at it, too, and there's often some point in the presentation where you can see it click, even with people who thought they understood it before. It's amazing to watch a room full of white professors and high levvel administrators suddenly get it. Some burst into tears. Former students come up to her years later and say she was the one who first made them understand, and they've spent their careers since then working on it.

Those types of efforts--like yours, and like the OP's (not to mention the cartoonist's)--pay off in the long run, no matter how many detractors oppose them. The first time I heard the term "white supremacy" (not meaning the hooded guys in white sheets) was here on DU probably over ten years ago. I remember the poster who used it, though I don't see her around anymore. While I always sort of understood the concept and had long raged against it, I never had the words to fully express and clarify my thinking on it. That poster may have no idea how she affected me.

That's why I applaud those who keep trying. It really does make a difference.