Forgetting blackness is the price of inclusion and sustains white supremacy

Evidence

But there is the idea, and it has been a feature of postwar American liberalism since the beginning of the Cold War, that the price of wholesale inclusion in this society is that we actively forget we are black people—that we become just Americans while white people continue to benefit from being white. The irony, of course, is that the active forgetting—the disremembering—is one of the crucial ways white supremacy in the twenty-first century sustains itself. And black liberalism has helped it stay alive. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 436

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the mechanism of ‘disremembering’ that white supremacy sustains itself through — distinct from overt prejudice.
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of distinguishing racial habits/value gap from mere prejudice; likely connects to Glaude’s later chapters and reading on democratic first-person plural.