White people who believe we live in a meritocracy are unable and unwilling to understand or appreciate – let alone embrace or support – the urgency of racial justice.
White people who believe we live in a meritocracy don't and won't understand what "all the fuss is about."
White people who believe the principles of meritocracy extend to everyone, regardless of race, believe they are standing on an unshakeable meritocratic foundation that is inherently fair and equal.
White people who believe we live in a meritocracy unselfconsciously assert that "all lives matter" with defiance and arrogance.
White people who believe we live in a meritocracy believe that because they've worked hard, had misfortunes, been excluded – experienced any number of difficulties that all humans have experienced – that there is nothing racially motivated or racially unjust or racially inequitable about what Black people experience on a daily basis.
White people who are unwilling to entertain the idea that we don't actually live in a meritocracy will continually resist, oppose, and counter any and all efforts that would actually lead to a meritocracy.
White people who believe we live in a meritocracy rely on unmeritocratic racial privilege to stubbornly cling to the belief that we live in a meritocracy.