Sociotext

Sociotext

Response Repertories	White Supremacy	Whites relating to Nonwhites	Nonwhites relating to Whites	Nonwhite Supremacy	Colorists / Intermediates
Denial	Denial that Nonwhites are equal human beings	Denial of white privilege, avoidance and / or hostility towards Nonwhites	Denial of effects of racism in my life	Denial that Whites are people, both good and bad	Denial of their nonwhiteness or whiteness
Anger	Anger that Nonwhites enjoy some degree of enfranchisement	Anger when their racism (blatant or latent) is pointed out	Anger at the realization that racism has circumscribed and impacted their life from birth	Anger that Nonwhites do not see what White society is perpetrating	Anger when their humanity is denied or confined based on nonwhiteness
Bargaining	Bargaining: My Whiteness is protected by the separation and avoidance of nonwhites	Bargaining: “I am not a racist. I don’t see color. I judge people by their character.”	Bargaining: “I am not like the rest of the Nonwhite race,” i.e. Oreo (Black), Apple (Native), Coconut (Hispanic), Banana (Asian)	Bargaining: Separation from white control of nonwhite community and psyche	Bargaining: To escape the oppression – I am not Nonwhite, only partially so
Depression	Depression: People of Color are seen enjoying the benefits of White enfranchisement	Depression: Discovery of racial dysfunction in attitudes, feelings and behavior	Depression: No guarantee of equal treatment, kept in our place	Depression: The realizing that Nonwhites are inter-connected with white society	Depression: Society does not let one escape their Nonwhite status
Acceptance	Acceptance: The value of society’s enfranchisement is based on my humanity, not my whiteness	Acceptance: My recovery from racism begins with myself and my world	Acceptance: Acceptance of operating in a hostile society	Acceptance: Nonwhites are part of society and deserve to be enfranchised	Acceptance: To recover my self-esteem based on my person, not my degree of – whiteness