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For example, white settlers in Canada and other colonial settler societies must acknowledge the harms associated with international colonization and the slave trade and the inter-generational effects on Black, racialized and Indigenous communities.

Read more: How Canada committed genocide against Indigenous Peoples, explained by the lawyer central to the determination. In order to undo anti-Black racism and all systematic racism white people need to take accountability for the various ways they experience and exercise privilege. It also means understanding how they may covertly benefit and contribute to the cycle of racism. Sefa Dei has advocated for incorporating Africentric curricula and insights into everyday learning to undo the centring of white perspectives.

Executive coach Mya Hu-Chan, who helps workplaces address racism, notes that dialogues about addressing racism often revolve around being called out or called in. This is a start, but much more needs to be done to create space for accountability if campuses are truly to become more diverse and inclusive.

Read more: Twitter shaming won't change university power structures. We all have a social responsibility. The notion of community engagement and dismantling institutional racism involves everyone. White accountability for addressing and eradicating anti-Black racism means understanding and acknowledging that verbal commitments must be also transformed into actions.

The actions must be formed, validated and determined in dialogue with the Black community. Accountability requires ongoing dialogue between the privileged and the underprivileged, and challenging the ingrained covert forms of racism embedded in our everyday lives. Phrased differently, it is white people especially progressive white people who are responsible for what happens now.

Cooper, they linger in the fallacy that they could never be involved in a racist incident. Either they accept that they have inherited this house of white supremacy, built by their forebears and willed to them, and they are now responsible for paying the taxes on that inheritance, or the status quo continues.

I hope they will become radicalized by this moment and begin to fight fiercely for racial justice; but more than that, I hope they start at home, in their own minds and hearts. As I tell my students: a white person rushing to do racial justice work without first understanding the impacts, uses, and deceptions of their own whiteness is like an untrained person rushing into the ER to help the nurses and doctors—therein probably lies more harm than good.

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