Racial division damages white and black Americans alike

Evidence

It is a war which just as it denies both the heights and the depths of our natures, takes, and has taken, visibly and invisibly, as many white lives as black ones. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 815

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Total racial hatred is self-destructive because it erases too much of one’s own humanity — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 798; Whites are simultaneously privileged by and harmed by racism — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 103; Slavery and Jim Crow inflicted lasting moral harm on white Americans as well

Broader Connections

• Whites are simultaneously privileged by and harmed by racism #corroborates (0.92) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 103
• Slavery and Jim Crow inflicted lasting moral harm on white Americans as well #corroborates (0.90)