As long as White people continue to push the meritocracy myth we will continue to witness racial inequity.
As long as we continue to push the narrative that all people have to do is pull themselves up by their bootstraps and they can achieve whatever they want we will continue to uphold the status quo.
As long as we continue to push the concept of White exceptionalism—that we are the "good" White people doing "good" things—we will continue to perpetuate White supremacy.
As long as we continue to see ourselves as "normal"—without a race, without racial urgency—we will continue to to see ourselves as the top of the racial hierarchy.
As long as we fail to recognize how we can use the power our whiteness affords us to drive change we will continue to marginalize anyone who does not identify or pass as White.
As long as White people continue to be triggered by terms like White privilege and White supremacy, we will continue to opt out of crucial conversation about racism.
As long as White people continue to use our privilege to maintain our privilege and not to level the playing field we will continue to perpetuate oppression and injustice.
As long as we continue to attach ourselves to our whiteness, we will continue to push the false narrative that whiteness is supreme.