Friday, January 21, 2022
There's a term I've been kicking around lately: Baseline Awareness. I use this term when thinking about race from my white male perspective. Had I measured my awareness of race back in 1995, I might have imagined a middle range, even though it was quite low. Now, many years later, my awareness is much deeper and more pronounced, but still I'm unable to fully absorb what Ron Davis calls the daily relentlessness of racism that people of color must confront in the U.S. I know it's there, but I'll never see or feel it. I can acknowledge it though, but too many white people don't acknowledge any relentlessness at all.
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