ABSTRACT
To confront something and challenge it head-on, it is advisable to understand what you are challenging in the event that it shifts and changes its shape and form. If you know it and its nature, then it is possible to recognize it regardless of the form it may take. Racism is a set of beliefs and actions that were embedded into our social, political, and economic systems even prior to the inception of the nation. Racism has been historically tied to, and continues to be linked to, the economic self-interests of members of the White American race and culture and to White-identified people, that is, people of color who are psychologically invested in White culture (Carter, 1995; Kendi, 2017).
