Idelette McVicker A Confession for Recovering Racists We acknowledge…. We acknowledge the injustice of race and racism and the harm it has inflicted on generations of people across centuries. We acknowledge that we have benefited from the…
Idelette McVicker Self-indulgent desire for relief “Unsolicited confessions [from white people to Black people] inspired by a sense of guilt are often poured over Black bodies in search of their own relief,” says Austin Channing Brown…
Idelette McVicker This was a liberating Jesus When I left South Africa, I didn’t want anything to do with a Jesus who endorsed colonialism, the slaughter of Zulu people, and the whole system of apartheid. I didn’t…
Idelette McVicker Like moving to Taiwan Leaving whiteness and entering an anti-racist world were, for me, like moving to Taiwan. I didn’t know the lay of the land. I didn’t know how to get around. I…