Fear of becoming the 'bad' guy....part 3

This is the final paragraph of Kate's post and my response. Thank you Kate for raising these issues and being open to hearing my responses. 

Kate:

Yes, they are all good white people with good intentions. Yet they take umbrage with any insinuation that they have some work to do. Consequently, I always become “ the bad guy.” What am I doing wrong? Is there a magic way to help white people grow without causing harm?

I don't think it is helpful to use the "good/bad" framework when examining white people. As we continue our understanding of whiteness in the u.s. that all white people are racist, then we know that white people are either racists or anti-racist racists. That is the framework most helpful in ending racism.

Again, we cannot live and participate in a racist, misogynist war-mongering society without examining exactly what "good" means. White people have built a country where white men are considered "good" as they swept through this land, eliminating most of the indigenous people who inhabited here, stole and enslaved people for over TWO HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS, and continued that practice of slavery through other means, while militarily invaded and exploited almost every single country in the world. And still after 400+ years cannot figure out any other way to live other than exploiting Black and brown people while benefiting white people.  

We recently see how "good men" who have statues made in their honor and memory are being torn down because they've only been "good" for white people at the detriment of Black and brown people.

Whenever we are willing to speak truth to injustice, especially when that injustice has SOOOOOO benefitted white people, we are going to be seen as stepping outside the boundaries that racism has assigned to our race and behavior. And therefore being called a "bad"white guy. 

Being called "bad" while attempting to end racism is the only right thing you can be called: it means you're doing the work to topple racism.

So the question is NOT Is there a magic way to help white people grow without causing harm?

But the question is: "what magic can we use to end white people's harm and dismantle systemic racism?"