Estelle Platini<p>"In terms of racial identity, white Americans have had the choice of being something vague, something unraced and separate from race. A capitalized "White" challenges that freedom, by unmasking Whiteness as an American racial identity as historically important as "Blackness" — which it certainly is."</p><p>~ Nell Irvin Painter: <a href="https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/nell-irvin-painter-why-white-should-be-capitalized-too" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wctrib.com/opinion/nell-irvin-</span><span class="invisible">painter-why-white-should-be-capitalized-too</span></a> via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@breton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>breton</span></a></span> 🧶</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/raceMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raceMaking</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/entitlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>entitlement</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/whiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coloniality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coloniality</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/decolonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decolonial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/antiRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiRacism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/militancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>militancy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Whiteness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whiteness</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/blackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NellIrvinPainter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NellIrvinPainter</span></a></p>