Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape Whiteness’s infiltrated appetites—to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation. When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning (“never again”) or as temptation (“great again”). Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression. There is not yet a permanent cure.

白度是一个人首先获得然后拥有的条件——一种恶性的、类似寄生虫的疾病，“白人”对这种疾病特别敏感。条件是基础，在一个人的身体、一个人的思想和一个人的世界中产生特有的存在方式。寄生的白度使其宿主的食欲变得贪婪、贪得无厌和变态。这些畸形的食欲特别针对非白人。一旦建立，这些胃口几乎不可能消除。有效的治疗包括心理干预和社会历史干预的结合。这种干预可以合理地旨在重塑怀特内斯渗透的欲望——降低它们的强度，重新分配它们的目标，并偶尔将这些目标转向赔偿工作。当被记住和代表时，慢性病造成的破坏既可以作为警告（“再也不会”），也可以作为诱惑（“再次伟大”）。因此，单独的纪念并不能保证不会回归。目前还没有永久治愈方法。