Thanks for this piece, Heidi. I appreciated the range of thoughts and voices you gathered together.  Nadeau's call for an examination of White privilege is particularly important. Discussion of racism as a matter of individual sentiment is not helpful, unless the primary goal is to help White people feel alright about themselves, and justified in their sentimental dispositions. Also, labeling  "wrong" thoughts and feelings "sin" seems likely to reinforce narcissistic self reflection, and the false sense that there is some sort of emotional high ground to be attained. Attention remains fixed upon the White person's salvation, perhaps with hope that Blacks will enjoy some trickle-down benefit.

Far, far, better to bring focus to the material conditions imposed by White majorities on Blacks, and the myriad of mechanisms by which they have been and are perpetrated, and through which we continue to profit, at the grievous expense of our brothers and sisters.