John Biewen — The Long View, I: On Being White
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is Whiteness Really the Story?
As a journalist who, on and off throughout the thirty plus years i've been doing this, i thought of myself as some one who was interested in race and covered race. But what that almost always meant pretty much always meant was that i told stories. And it's not that those pieces were not in raceism. They were often about raceism. The larger systemic analysis of that was not there. That analysis and that acknowledgment were not there. So that in the process of turning to look whiteness and saying, as you said, whiteness is the story. Yes. White people are the story, yes....
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