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# “To My Fellow White Others”
- URL: https://www.saraburke.net/to-my-fellow-white-others/
- Published: 2019-02-24T18:41:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-29T06:46:50.000Z
- Author: Sara Burke

> The need to unpack our power and privilege in moments of pain and hurt is counterintuitive to most of us. We rightly want to sit in the pain of being targeted. But holding our own pain cannot come at the expense of obscuring the machinations of power that keep us safe even as we are Othered. And when we inevitably turn to the legal system for redress for our pain, we must there too recognize how we are serving a system that is designed to benefit us as white people. 
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> “[To My Fellow White Others](https://progressive.org/magazine/to-my-fellow-white-others-strangio/?ref=saraburke.net)” by Chase Strangio

This is required reading. This will be in history books.