It is a truth we have to confront amidst our national racial reckoning: so much of Black and Brown life, and that of Indigenous and Asian folk, too, has been lived with the imperative to reinforce white comfort. Yes, white privilege, white innocence, and white fragility are real and must be acknowledged and grappled with. But we must also confront white comfort, which is basically the arrangement of the social order for the convenience of white folk, one that offers them comfort as a noun, that is, ease and relief from pain or limits or constraints, and comfort as a verb, that is, taking action to console white grief or distress.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 184-185
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