so being a diversey trainer going day in and day out . going against my socialization which most white people are taught not to talk about racism and every day i walked into rooms filled with whitepeople and say we're going to talk about racism . most often ending side-by-side with the black facilitator who was the only person of color in most of those rooms . and just being stunned at the hostility to the conversation . that the meanness. i mean, we can be really mean. on this topic and driving home with that cofacilitator and bearing witness, it's part of being white is never having to bear witness to seeing racism on black people and rarely being held accountable for the things that you caused . and so experience of academia, kind of brought me to be writing and somebody somewhere quoted from white fragility the article and it exploded. i apparently captured in language and dynamic that something familiar certainly to black people but also once i needed from the ears of white people and it's harder to deny a sharedexperience . so i was

so being a diversey trainer going day in and day out . going against my socialization which most white people are taught not to talk about racism and every day i walked into rooms filled with whitepeople and say we're going to talk about racism . most often ending side-by-side with the black facilitator who was the only person of color in most of those rooms . and just being stunned at the hostility to the conversation . that the meanness. i mean, we can be really mean. on this topic and driving home with that cofacilitator and bearing witness, it's part of being white is never having to bear witness to seeing racism on black people and rarely being held accountable for the things that you caused . and so experience of academia, kind of brought me to be writing and somebody somewhere quoted from white fragility the article and it exploded. i apparently captured in language and dynamic that something familiar certainly to black people but also once i needed from the ears of white people and it's harder to deny a sharedexperience . so i was