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==== 🧨 First: What Do We Mean by “Whiteness”? ====

We’re not talking about skin color alone.

We’re talking about whiteness as a socio-political system of assumed normativity, dominance, and cultural centrality—a system that:
* Sets the default tone for what is “normal,” “respectable,” or “American”
* Structures institutional power across economics, education, housing, and law
* Maintains itself through coded language, symbols, policies, and erasures

It’s not always loud. Sometimes it whispers.
But it always orders the room—unless it is directly dismantled.