‘Call it what it is’: Senators dissect white supremacy in anti-racism chat

'It’s very easy to say, it’s ‘us’ and ‘them,’ but we are also a part of the ‘them’ and we need to see it that way,' says Senator Peter Boehm.
Senators Peter Boehm, top left, and Kim Pate, bottom right, joined Senators Wanda Thomas Bernard, top right, and Stan Kutcher, bottom left, for their weekly Facebook Live series examining the ‘Pandemic of Racism’ on Feb. 22.
Conversations about race and its impacts shouldn’t be watered down with the use of terms such as white fragility and white privilege, according to a group of Senators participating in Feb. 22 discussion about racial injustice, who say it should be called what it is—white supremacy. These terms,...

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