Language, Leaders, And White Supremacy

Erna Kim Hackett

An example of how whiteness presents itself as normal and neutral in our language, but is actually an expression of power: when white people read a book and see, “a man walked across the street.” They will assume that that person is white, unless they are told, “a Latino man walked across the street.” White people think of them themselves as people, not white people. The power of being the norm.