Whites often confuse comfort with safety and state that we don’t feel safe when what we really mean is that we don’t feel comfortable. This trivializes our history of savage brutality towards people of color and perverts the reality of that history. Because we don’t think complexly about racism, we don’t ask ourselves what safety means from a position of dominance, or the impact on people of color for Whites to complain about their safety when merely talking about racism.
— My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege [via]
