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The central problem with online work is that white people think that that’s where it begins and ends.

That it doesn’t have to impact their offline or day-to-day lives at all.

White people have gotten very good at saying all the right words in all the right order and being self-flagellating and self-deprecating online, while still reaping the benefits of racism and white supremacy; still perpetuating harm in their day-to-day lives either by action, inaction, or by things being perpetuated in their name.

It doesn’t touch anything that truly matters, not their workplace lives, not their finances, not their spirituality.

That’s the problem.

But white people have decided for themselves that anti-racism work can be done on a phone or laptop. And they can go back and continue to do whatever all else they were doing but feel good because they strung the words together the right way–and maybe tossed a quid to a woc, and then tell themselves they dispatched their moral and ethical duty.

In short, white people completely defined the terms and limitations of what anti-racism work looks like. And guess what? It’s all to your aggrandisement. Which means it is ineffective at best, and impotent and sabotaging of actual work at worst.

That is what I am trying to change with every fiber of my being.

It is all about external Praxis.

If your life is not being changed outside of a screen, and you are not changing other people by your example as well as by your words, this space, Lace on Race, is a failed experiment indeed.

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I am so very tired of saying this.

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