CARW Points of Unity
October 1, 2008
- We understand that as white people we live in a racist society and have been taught to be racist.
- We understand that white people have institutional power in the United States.
- We understand that racism is race prejudice backed with institutional power.
- We understand that we have directly benefited from white skin privilege and have taken part directly and indirectly in perpetuating white supremacy and systematic racism.
- We are committed to acknowledging racism and taking the required steps to undo racism on an individual, cultural and institutional level.
- We are committed to honoring the leadership of people of color and to being held accountable to them.
- We are committed to exploring what it means to be white in a society where white people hold institutional power.
- We are committed to organizing in an anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, anti-ageist and anti-ableist way.
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