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Very powerful piece, Tara!

What's ironic is that your White peers from the neighborhood group (who, I'm guessing, largely self-identify as "progressive"?) are probably the first ones to rail against white fragility...without recognizing how they themselves were exhibiting white fragility due to the Black woman's constructive criticisms of them.

One way in which the narrative seems to get muddled is by those people (again, usually performative White virtue-signalers) who attempt to equate implicit bias with white supremacy. True, white supremacy will be the END RESULT, if racially-motivated implicit bias isn't challenged. But that doesn't mean they're automatically one-and-the-same, right off the bat.

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Anthony Eichberger
Anthony Eichberger

Written by Anthony Eichberger

Gay. Millennial. Pagan/Polytheist. Disabled. Rural-Born. Politically-Independent. Fashion-Challenged. Rational Egoist. Survivor. #AgriWarrior (Deal With It!)

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