Letting Go of Being White

So how do we respond to this notion that the white identity is based on the Big White Lie and that it was birthed in greed, dominance, theft and exploitation? 

I must admit, that it has taken me a while to write this post as it is a painful and messy topic. 

We have to acknowledge how deeply we are attached to our identities. Even identities that we haven't chosen for ourselves, but have been given to us by society. Based on my own journey, I have come to see that processing the injustices inflicted by the Big White Lie and the white identity has been similar to processing a major life loss. 

I hope that we can have an authentic conversation about our psychological response to the challenge of our identity. For too long, the focus has been on "not being racist" and this had led to surface-level political correctness. I am inviting fellow, pale-skinned folk to a deeper journey to freedom and healing which will truly allow us to live and engage justly with our society and folk with darker skins than us. Let's start by honestly looking at our emotional response to the revelation that our identity was created to oppress others.