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<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;">Sitting in his Ford F-150 truck, he spends five minutes delivering a whole bunch of great thoughts about — you guessed it — racism.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div>
<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 1em 0px 0px; font-size: 1em; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-style: italic;"> "Not all white people are racist, but white culture is. Our white country is. Our American culture is full of white supremacy. We live in a white supremacist culture that caters to white people."</blockquote>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;">Wow. If you can listen to this video, start it below because it's spot-on and full of powerfully delivered quotes like that. Or if you're more in the mood for highlights, check them out below.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Warning: lots of NSFW language, somehow appropriately used.</strong></div>
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<div class="underbar fb-subscribe" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(224, 214, 204); padding: 5px; margin: 3px 0px 0px -5px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 25.6px; line-height: 1.25em;">He delivers his opinions in one of the most accessible ways I've ever heard.</span><span class="btn-spacer" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0px;"></span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;">He doesn't just talk about white privilege; he lays out a bunch of ways for white folks to start truly being a part of change. Here are some of his better quotes.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;">Recognize that everything's white-washed.</div>
<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 1em 0px 0px; font-size: 1em; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-style: italic;"> "This country was built for white people, and it's time white Americans come to terms with <g style="box-sizing: border-box;">that</g> and realize that we are benefiting from it." <br style="box-sizing: border-box;"></blockquote>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;">Don't be defensive. Don't rationalize it away. Don't be indifferent. </div>
<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 1em 0px 0px; font-size: 1em; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-style: italic;"> Stop being defensive. I'm saying take some fucking responsibility. All people are equal. God made us that way. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;"></blockquote>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;">Take responsibility and speak up. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div>
<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 1em 0px 0px; font-size: 1em; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-style: italic;"> I'm not talking about all white people being bad, but speak up and don't ever ignore racism. It's the inaction that's always destroyed other people and other nations. </blockquote>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;">No one wants to be racist, and recognizing that the system is not set up for people of color is our first step toward fixing the problem. The bottom line: We are empowered. Let's make change together.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">The best selling cosmetics in Sinosphere (China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam), and other parts of the world, is the skin whitener. One of my Chinese student and his Mom went down Waikiki under their parasol and had the stare in their lives; I mean, why stroll down Waikiki if you are going to shade yourself from the sun? </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Racial prejudice is in the human psyche to stay for a while. I started calling my skin tone "beautifully brown" when someone tells me I had gotten darker. When in northeast China, I get sickly pale!</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Not to justify the prejudice, but the pro-IndoAryan sentiment is widespread in every continent and the "reality and tragedy" is something we will live with awhile while we subvert its underpinning.</span></div>
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