PROXIMITY PRIVILEGE

Some White People Who Claim Proximity Actually are Anti-Racist

We know we’ll never fully know what’s it’s like to be Black

Carol Lennox
Published in
4 min readMar 1, 2022

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Author Carol Lennox with son Blake Scott, aka Moonlair360. From author’s collection

I was accused of using proximity to claim not being racist. I’ve also seen it in responses to articles by other White people with Black husbands, wives, or children. And I get it.

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Psychotherapist sharing new choices. Leans far Left. Mindfulness practitioner before it was cool. LPC, M.Ed. Helping you make a difference every day