Think about how far the language has traveled.
The last time this country had to face its racist foundation, very few people were using the words "white privilege." Even inside the movement fighting for equality, there were limits placed on how loudly the truth of white supremacy could be named. The systems, institutions, and policies doing the most harm had to be spoken around, not through.
That is not where we are now.
We have moved from "can't we all just get along" to "this is white folx shit to fix." That shift did not happen by accident and it did not happen overnight. It happened because people who had everything to lose kept telling the truth anyway.
And here is what that shift means structurally, any effort to reverse it will accelerate it. Every attempt to silence the conversation, rewrite the history, or drag the country backward will be met with a force that pushes the expectation further forward.
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