re: How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism

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They can then use those resources to set up their own child’s life in ways that give them the best education, the best health care, all the best things. And we have this collectively agreed-upon idea in our society that being a “good parent” means exactly that—providing the best opportunities you can for your own child.

But then some of these parents are also people who believe strongly in the importance of diversity and multiculturalism and who want to resist racial inequality. And these two things are sort of at odds with one another.

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I think she's specially targeting the northern rich white liberals who think they know what's best for everybody else but not necessarily pertain to them.