Letters | Undermining whiteness, celebrating Scotus | Commonweal Magazine

It is in this context that we should ask not whether white people should contribute or even lead a racial-justice agenda, but where they are capable of doing so. First, white people need to recover their humanity. After half a millennium of self-professed and violently enforced racial superiority, they are simply incapable of engaging us as fully human by virtue of our exclusion from their race. Whiteness is itself the proof of full humanity in the West. To be white is to be human; to be human is to be white. 
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