Response Repertories | White Supremacy | Whites relating to Nonwhites | Nonwhites relating to Whites | Nonwhite Supremacy | Colorists / Intermediates |
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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 |