Washington Post Video: Understand Your Whiteness. White Supremacy Benefits You. It’s An Important Part Of Self-Awareness.

In a video promoted prominently on the website of The Washington Post, titled, “Why is White racial identity important,” whites are told that white supremacism is “structural” among white people, that “understanding your whiteness is integral to becoming self-aware as a white person,” that an “anti-racist culture does not exist among white people,” that white people in “white accountability groups” are “unpacking wrong things that we have been taught in history class” and have experienced “a period of deep shame,” and finally, that “white people don’t really understand racism.”

The video, which the Post states revolves around “why understanding your whiteness and the ways that white supremacy benefits you is an important part of becoming self aware,” begins with a black man opining, “Racism, racialization, white body supremacism, is not episodic; it’s structural. Remember that there were thousands of George Floyds before the one that you saw. Your bodily response to this horror, right, is not the same thing as you dealing with the structural aspects of this.”