White Supremacy Culture – Still Here

This article is an update of the original White Supremacy Culture article published in 1999. While I wrote the words on the pages that became the White Supremacy Culture article all those years ago, I want to make it clear that I do not consider the original article or the website that is an extension of the article, my work. I feel a sense of stewardship rather than of ownership. The article was informed by my decade of experience facilitating racial equity workshops and work at that time, starting with my original colleague the inestimable James Williams and followed by a 12-year partnership with Kenneth Jones. I was deeply steeped in my own learning curve over the course of that decade. In addition, I was fortunate to be mentored by Sharon Martinas, who was organizing the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop series; Sharon was the one who advised to include antidotes. I also attended a People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond workshop in the Bay (one of many I was lucky to attend). This workshop was co-facilitated by Daniel Buford, a lead trainer at PISAB at the time the original article was written. He was doing extensive research on white supremacy culture and linguistic racism and you will see the portions that he informed both on the original article and here marked by an asterisk.