She is now arguing, however, that Yale is trying to suppress her by not releasing the footage of her talk publicly. Khilanani says it was only released internally after facing calls from some to release it. White people make my blood boil,’ she said.Īfter Khilanani delivered the talk, Yale only made it available to students and faculty with a warning that said it contained ‘profanity and imagery for violence’. The cost of your own life, as they suck you dry. ‘This is the cost of talking to white people at all. We need to get to know the mask,’ she said. White people think it’s their actual face. They don’t even know they have a mask on. ‘Addressing racism assumes that white people can see and process what we are talking about. Khilanani also said speaking to white people about race was ‘useless’ because she says they are not at same level of conversation. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall. ‘We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero, to accept responsibility. We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath,’ she said. ‘They feel that we should be thanking them for all that they have done for us. She went on to say that white people feel they are being bullied when people of color bring up race and described it as a ‘psychological predicament’. Like I did the world a f**king favor,’ Khilanani said during the talk.
‘I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step.
Dr Aruna Khilanani, who is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, delivered the talk virtually to Yale University medical students and faculty back in April
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