Named one of the The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the. She’s the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. as a white supremacist society reminds the reader that systemic racism is the ultimate source of these difficulties and problems. Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller. The stakes for transformative conversations about race could not be higher. Protests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. Oluo’s feeling of dread again stresses the emotional burden of talking about racism as a person of color, and her description of the U.S. In this 1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America. Oluo thinks it’s important to be sensitive to these differences when talking about race, acknowledge that everybody’s lived-experience is valid, and avoid assuming that one person’s experience is the same as another’s (which is what her mother initially does). This means that a person whose situation is slightly different has different experiences with racism (like Oluo’s mother, who has mixed-race children but isn’t black herself). In making this point, Oluo reemphasizes the intersectional nature of her experience with racism: she’s oppressed as a person of color but also somewhat privileged as a light-skinned person of color. This means that people who think they “get it” probably still have things to learn. Oluo warns her readers not to confuse knowing black people with “being an actual black person” who lives with racism day in and day out.
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