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#WhitenessAsProperty is not easy reading as a White person

But the exclusion of Black Veterans from the GI Bill, of certain predominantly Black domestic workers from Social Security, as well as well-known redlining stories… well read Ray on this

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“Many white families have indeed worked hard and sacrificed. But Black families were often legally locked out of the wealth-generating mechanisms white families accepted as their birthright. Racial inequality arose not out of a superior white work ethic but from aspects of struetural racism that transmuted whiteness into property.”

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“For much of U.S. history, whiteness meant one could legally enslave people, and their children, in perpetuity- and whiteness protected one from being so enslaved. Whiteness meant that supposedly binding treaties were mere suggestions... Whiteness allowed people to eliminate economic competition through the mob violence of lynching, or through riots destroying Black communities, and face no legal consequences…

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Ch 6: #WhitenessAsProperty

#CherylHarris in a classic article developed #WEBDuBois's notion of "the wages of Whiteness"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1341787?seq=1?seq=1

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and examines data on #MedicaidExpansion suggesting some White Americans are willing to give up real benefits as long as giving up those benefits hurts Black Americans worse

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Ray cites #MaryDudziak's historical research showing, for example, that State Department pressure against segregation came as Soviet propoganda was hammering the US overseas about its racial hypocrisy

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This is not the claim there are no allies or antiracists of good faith

But it is the claim that the story of civil rights is best understood as more than just a moral reckoning