Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World

Layla Saad

Jan 2020 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

'An indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin' Robin DiAngelo, author of WHITE FRAGILITY

'It should be mandatory reading ... Buy the book, do the work and then push more copies into the hands of everyone you know' Emma Gannon

'Confrontational and much-needed' Stylist

'She is no-joke changing the world and, for what it's worth, the way I live my life.'
Anne Hathaway

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Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #MeAndWhiteSupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviours, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated, and over 90,000 people downloaded the book.

The updated and expanded Me and White Supremacy takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources.

Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. The numbers show that readers are ready to do this work - let's give it to them.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely racist garbage, can't believe the audacity of this author, so much hate and racism against white people.. i get it, before it was blame it all on the jews now it's the white people.. Anti white propaganda, it's funny she lived in UK tho, took advantage of its prosperity and system which heavily benefits immigrants over its own citizens... and I'm telling this as a immigrant myself and part of a minority group, some people love being the victims, Living with the same toxic victim mindset and blaming someone for their problems.

Decided to read the book to give the author a chance. Unfortunately it was exactly what I expected. For any normal person this book is discriminatory. But for the author, due to her self-attributed victimhood, her message is fair, deserved and more importantly necessary for a change. Let me say this once and for all, garbage books like this will only serve to divide society even more.

This book is the optimal representation of all thats wrong in 2020. White privilege is a racist concept on its face, with skin colour as the main determinant of value and truth. Identity politics atomizes society, dissolves community, reduces a country to subsets of clans, one-dimensional interests, group thinking, and obscures the immense diversity of individual, specific lives and the people who live them. It is never the place for one member to presume she has the full truth by virtue of identity, her truth and no other; and certainly never a place where one member has the “privilege” — of white or any other colour — of telling another when he can’t or shouldn’t speak. Only the truly privileged can make claim that others enjoy such benefits, yet making a career off such a Marxists' virtue mean big business to those without any real meaning or value to the world, their community or the future. The ability to target the GroupThink audience simply is the reason for a star.

About the author

Layla Saad is a globally respected writer, speaker and podcast host on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change. As an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East, Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Layla's work is driven by her powerful desire to 'become a good ancestor'; to live and work in ways that leave a legacy of healing and liberation for those who will come after she is gone.

Me And White Supremacy is Layla's first book. Initially offered for free following an Instagram challenge under the same name, the best-selling digital Me And White Supremacy Workbook was downloaded by close to ninety thousand people around the world in the space of six months, before becoming a traditionally published book. Layla's work has been brought into homes, educational institutions and workplaces around the world that are seeking to create personal and collective change.

Layla earned her Bachelor of Law degree from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. She lives in Doha, Qatar with her husband, Sam, and two children, Maya and Mohamed.