A woman from San Francisco had started crying before she even began speaking. βI'm here because I'm a racist. I'm here because my body has a trauma response to my own whiteness and other people's whiteness.β A woman who loved her cats was struggling with βhow to understand all the atrocities of being a white body.β Knowing that her very existence perpetuated whiteness made her feel like a drag on society. βThe darkest place I go is thinking it would be better if I weren't here. It would at least be one less person perpetuating these things.β
Quinn understood; that was normal. He just needed to try again, say βI am a racistβ and believe it. The man said: βI am racist.β What did he feel? He said he was trying not to fight it. Say it again. βI am racist.β
βThat's beautiful,β Quinn said.
Some members of the group were having a breakthrough. One woman realized she was βa walking, talking node of white supremacy.β
The essay had no real conclusion but as always DEI seminars are inadvertently hilarious.
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