Healing Racism Requires Inner Work—Here’s Why

4 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A argues that white people cannot expect racism to heal on its own; they must actively engage in inner work. This includes confronting implicit bias and microaggressions, educating themselves about erased histories, and expanding cultural literacy through reading books by diverse authors, watching films from various ethnicities, and traveling to experience different peoples. Speaker A emphasizes the need to step outside one's mental and bodily confines, suggesting embodied community practices like dancing as a somatic way to experience and learn from others. Speaker B affirms these points, reinforcing the call to move beyond intellectual understanding toward lived, bodily experience.

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It's sort of ignorant to think, for white people to think that, that racism is just gonna heal without us making an attempt to, to do the work, to face our implicit bias and microaggression and to do the education about that and not, and, and to learn, you know, learn history because things are being erased actively. So we have to be, and to read about different cultures, you know, read books by different authors. You know, and watch films by different, a variety of different cultures and ethnicities and travel, you know, get to know people if you have that privilege.
Mm-hmm.
Get outside your own head, you know?
Get outside your own body too.
Yes. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. I love the idea of doing the dancing thing. Mm-hmm. Experience a community in a very somatic way. So you're not in your head. Yeah. I love that.