These progressive White people can be the most harmful in perpetuating racism because they think they’re done doing their work. They think they get it, that they’re the choir to whom anti-racist people are preaching, and instead of searching themselves for micro-aggressions they unintentionally commit, they use their already-uplifted voices to showcase how ‘woke’ they are.

I can definitely be one of these progressive White people. I remember the moment I epitomized this idea: