title: Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It Second Edition
author:  Shelly Tochluk 
description: An educator, with a background in psychology, Shelly Tochluk spent ten years as a researcher, counselor, and teacher in California's public schools. Tochluk now trains educators to work with the diverse Los Angeles school population as a Professor of Education at Mount St. Mary's College.
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  #### The White People
  
  
  Chapter I
  
  Chapter II
  
  Chapter III
  
  Chapter IV
  
  Chapter V
  
  Chapter VI
  
  Chapter VII
  
  Chapter VIII
  
  Chapter IX
  
  Chapter X
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The White People
  
  
  ### Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO
  
  
  LIONEL
  
  
  "The stars come nightly to the sky;
  
  
  The tidal wave unto the sea;
  
  
  Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high
  
  
  Can keep my own away from me."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Perhaps the things which happened could
  
  
  only have happened to me. I do not
  
  
  know. I never heard of things like them
  
  
  happening to any one else. But I am not sorry
  
  
  they did happen. I am in secret deeply and
  
  
  strangely glad. I have heard other people say
  
  
  things--and they were not always sad people,
  
  
  either--which made me feel that if they knew
  
  
  what I know it would seem to them as though
  
  
  some awesome, heavy load they had always
  
  
  dragged about with them had fallen from their
  
  
  shoulders. To most people ever