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As a certified special needs educator, I knew that my students’ challenges, academic or social, never devalued their humanity. Providing them with specialized services, attention, and care wasn’t about lowering expectations; it was about building a learning environment where patience, practice, and compassion made mastery possible.
Success didn’t look the same for every student, but that didn’t make any of them less capable or less valuable.
My job was to guide each one toward their goals, step by step, while cultivating a classroom culture rooted in acceptance and strategy, not shame or fear.
I think about that experience often when I look at the current state of white men in our society.
So many of you want to see change, freedom from oppressive systems, workplaces built on respect, communities grounded in shared humanity, but so few have done the internal work necessary to actually exist harmoniously in that future.
Too many white dudes still lack the knowledge, language, and skills to navigate a world that’s supremacy-, coercion-, discrimination-, and exploitation-free.
And the truth is: as the demands for accountability and change continue to rise, those unprepared will default to what they know best…fear, anger, and harm.
Because that’s what the myth of white male supremacy has taught you to do.
When things get uncomfortable, when your position is no longer guaranteed, when others begin to thrive, you lash out, withdraw, or rationalize your own fragility as truth.
But what if, instead of defending your discomfort, you learned how to build something better?
What if you approached your own unlearning and accountability with the same patience, practice, and compassion given to students who need a different kind of instruction to succeed?
There is life beyond the myth of white supremacy.
And it’s time more of you learned how to live it.
Join me on December 6 for Life Beyond The Supremacy Myth: Redefining White Male Masculinity. A free event created for white men ready to do the work of becoming the kind of leaders a just future actually needs.
🔗 rsvp.lifebeyondthesupremacymyth.com/winter-2025
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