Productive dialogue with white people for anti-racist purposes is precluded by the political limits prescribed by the “principle of interest convergence,” occluded by the epistemological conditions of “white ignorance,” and disincentivized by the psychological burdens of “racial battle fatigue” borne by You and me, the Black would-be interlocutors. Nevertheless, much popular effort is spent—dare I say wasted—in attempts to talk white people out of their racism; or as I will define them in this paper, following James Baldwin, “those-who-think-of-themselves-as-white.” Consequently, I propose that we stop “talking” to those-who-think-of-themselves-as-white about racism, or at least adopt an attitude of extreme wariness.

与白人出于反种族主义目的进行的富有成效的对话被“利益融合原则”所规定的政治局限性所排除，被“白人无知”的认识论条件所掩盖，并且由于“种族战斗疲劳”所带来的心理负担而被消除了。由你和我，黑人可能的对话者。然而，人们花了很多力气-我敢说是浪费了-试图说服白人摆脱种族主义。或按照我在本文中对它们的定义，紧跟詹姆斯·鲍德温（James Baldwin），“那些认为自己是白人的人”。因此，我建议我们停止与那些白人认为种族主义的人“交谈”，或者至少采取极端警惕的态度。