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You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.
Robin Diangelo
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Interpretation

What this quote means

Accountable relationships across races involve authenticity, sustained engagement, and open conversations about racism.

In this quote, Robin DiAngelo emphasizes the importance of building accountable relationships that cross racial boundaries. Such relationships should not only be genuine and ongoing, but they should also encourage honest discussions about racism and be open to constructive feedback, fostering a deeper understanding and connection among individuals of different backgrounds.

Themes

AccountabilityRelationshipsRacismAuthenticityFeedback

In practice

Example use cases

During a workshop on diversity and inclusion, this quote could be used to stress the importance of openness in addressing racial issues.

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The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
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Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.
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One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a good-bad proposition - that if we're good we can't be part of it, that being uncomfortable means you're a terrible person. We have to let go of that and understand it as a system we all live in.
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This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the water of our culture. But mainstream sources - schools, textbooks, media - don't provide us with the multiple perspectives we need.
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White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.
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I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day, in workshops all over the country. That has allowed me to observe very predictable patterns. And one of those patterns is this inability to tolerate any kind of challenge to our racial reality.
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