White people lose by being isolated within racist assumptions

Evidence

“Eli often says, in his work, that white people lose out when we are isolated and informed by racist assumptions. I want to thank you for trusting us and sharing your story with us. We are two families that have been wronged by Agassiz’s racism—yours far more potently.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 952

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that racism harms its beneficiaries connects to the reparations literature framing in Ta-Nehisi Coates and to the reader’s existing interest in how institutions hold stolen things.