Ep.22 - The Psychic Weight of Race

White people don’t bear the weight of racialization. They move through the world without the sense of existing as a racial being. Often people assume that if they are attending a class or workshop on race, then they’ll be talking about Michelle Obama’s race. Because of this, in our society, it becomes a psychic weight or burden that people of color are always holding. They’re seen as the holders of the answers.