A Few Definitions to Ponder 

Race: "A specious classification created by Euro pean Americans to place themselves at the top of a hierarchical social structure" - The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond 

Racism: "Racism generally means believing that a person 's behavior is determined by stable inherited characteristics deriving from separate racial stocks; each of these distinctive attributes is then evaluated in relation to ideas of superiority and inferiority." - Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity., and Society 

Trigger: "An incident that threatens an individual's' self-concept, challenges their belief system or activatesa previous negative experience." - Ramapo for Children 

White Fragility: "A state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a ran ge of defensive moves" - Robin DiAngelo "It is white people's responsibility to be lessfragile; People of Color don't need totwist themselves into knots trying to navigate us as painlessly as possible."

 White Privilege: "A historically based, institut ionally perpetuated system of benefits including preferences for and better treatment of white people, and exemption from racial oppression; and costs including the loss of unique histories and cultural expressions, and dehumanization that disconnects white people from people of color's humanity and violent experiences of racism." - Peggy. McIntosh & Paul Kivel 

White Supremacy: 'White supremacy is the racist ideology that is based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore, white people should be dominant over other races. White supremacy is not just an attitude or a way of thinking. It also extends to how systems and institutions are structured to uphold this white dominance." Leyla Saad, Me and WhiteSupremacy