So, i’m a 16 year old white person and i’ve been working towards being anti-racist for about two years now and It has opened my eyes to a lot things including how painfully racist my family is. I know silence doesn’t help anything but it’s 5 against one and one of those people could possibly hurt me and I’m so afraid. This morning I ended up confronting my step-mom unprepared and she was basically a textbook definition of white fragility. I am currently reading the book white fragility and I even tried to use the book during the argument (Not as a physical weapon). When all of my arguments were shut down I tried to ask her to refrain from making her racist jokes around me but she used the parent excuse as well as the excuse that BIPOC people make jokes about white people. The argument ended in her banning me from speaking about my “liberal” views and to stop “indoctrinating” my siblings.