Session 8:
Prompts

1) The costs of racism to white people

How have white supremacy & racism (also) hurt you as a white person or white presenting person?  What surprised you most in the listings of types of costs to white people? (Kivel & Goodman)

”No one is free until we are all free” - what does this mean to you?

2) The dukkha of whiteness

Do any of the contradictions for white people in anti-racism work speak to you ? Do you see others?

What does the dukkha of whiteness mean to you?

What are the causes of this dukkha?

3) Stages of insight in white awakening and positive white (non)identity

Where are you on the map(s)? (Note: if you don’t relate to any of the maps offered, how would you draw your own and situate yourself?)

What is needed to break through to the next stage?

4) Re-imagining what it is to be white: the Fourth Sight…

What struck or surprised you in researching the lives of white people in resistance to white supremacy?

How might white identity be re-imagined? How do we flip script?

What does it mean to you as a Buddhist to contend with social identities?