The #BlackLivesMatter movement has been met with resistance and hostility by many whites who do not see the need for assertions regarding the value and worth of Black lives. Those who seek to disrupt this emerging discourse tend to regard instances of white violence against Black people as individual incidents that do not reflect larger societal patterns. This paper addresses these assertions by drawing on discussions of slurs and other racially abusive language in the workplace. Using autoethnography, I provide rich descriptions of how hateful language circulates in whitespaces through both interpersonal interactions and through group-level consumption of racially problematic mass media creating organizations that are hostile to people of color, even in their absence. Major implications of this study include that the devaluation of Black and Native lives is pervasive within many predominantly white organizations and that this reality negatively effects both the life chances and the personal safety of people of color.

#BlackLivesMatter 运动遭到了许多白人的抵制和敌意，他们认为没有必要就黑人生命的价值和价值进行断言。那些试图破坏这种新兴话语的人倾向于将白人对黑人的暴力行为视为个人事件，并不反映更大的社会模式。本文通过对工作场所中的诽谤和其他种族辱骂性语言的讨论来解决这些断言。使用自我民族志，我提供了丰富的描述，描述了仇恨语言如何通过人际互动和群体层面对有种族问题的大众媒体的消费在空白空间中传播，从而创建了对有色人种怀有敌意的组织，即使在他们不在的情况下。