Have you seen Rachel Lindsay's interview of Chris Harrison as he defended Rachael Kirkconnell after photos of her surfaced at an Old South ball? Did we already confuse you? Hang in there. In a nutshell, this Bachelor Nation scandal is an example of a white person getting outed for doing something racist (e.g., sexy slavery cosplay, wearing Blackface, etc.) and then other white people defending them, getting up in arms about the "woke police," etc. thus making it even worse. Mandy dishes on her frustration with the term "antebellum" and its glorification (check out this article by Tamara Winfrey Harris) and Katy directs us to an article by Jen Harvey (author of Raising White Kids) that reminds us to hold people accountable AND not to "individualize" this incident in ways that let young white people off the hook for racism: "This is what happens when white children and youth are under-supported in learning to develop anti-racist values. White silence—pervasive even among those of us who believe abstractly or wholeheartedly in equity, fairness, and justice—has therefore done its work. It’s we white adults who are collectively responsible for the outcomes showing up in these next generations."
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