We need to own our whiteness, including the ways it benefits us every day. None of us chose the color of our skin or this racial caste system we were born into. Those of us deemed white can't just shed that identity in some easy way. We don't get to be generic individuals standing outside the race drama. We're in it. Next time a bigger, fuller, reported episode, whiteness and science,. How people used science to back up notions of white superiority and still do.