The term "whitesplaining" isn't new, and it wasn't born out of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. But if last year taught people anything, it's that it's time to examine how our own biases inform the way we act and speak to others—and being willing to take ownership and work on changing.
That's where "whitesplaining" comes in. "Whitesplaining is basically a white person trying to explain racism back to Black people, as if they don't know what that experience is all about," Emmanuel Cannady, a PhD candidate at the University of Notre Dame, tells
Health. (Cannady is a Black Lives Matter member and teaches a White Privilege class at the university and in the community.)