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"Language is intimately linked to culture" (Nieto, pg 210) Language is how we communicate with others and express ourselves.

Being born into a situation where you acquire a powerful language (such as English and especially varieties of English that are viewed as high in status) as a first language gives you an advantage in society and the world at large. In other words, it gives you privilege.

As John Whorter states,  for better or for worse, English is becoming our universal language.

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Power and Privilege go hand in hand. Having privilege is power and being powerful gives you privileges.

Institutional power is the ability or official authority to decide what is best for others. The ability to decide who will have access to resources. The capacity  to exercise control over others.
Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional level and gives advantages, favors, and benefits to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of groups.
Privilege still dictates who gets job interviews, hired,  and who gets promoted.

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Trust and Listen

Accept when you are wrong and try to learn from it.

Re-educate yourself

Do Something: Take action. Help those who cannot help themselves.

Advocate

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Joan Olsson wrote about the different behaviors and patterns white people use. I know this was written about white people but I also believe anyone, including people of color, use these detours.  Detours behaviors  are the results of internalized beliefs and attitudes about people of color, themselves, other white people and about being white. "Those internalized attitudes became actualized into racist behaviors"

The most common ones that I've heard are :

"I'm colorblind"

Innocent By Association

BWAME - But What About Me.

Teach Me, Please

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4 Reasons to Learn a New Language | John McWhorter | TED

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This is the most used phrase I hear when someone is denying they are racist.
"I don't see color"

The Consequence: These statements assume that people of color are just like  white people adn have all the same dreams, standards, problems, and peeves. Colorblindness negates the cultural values.

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"This detour into denial wrongly equates personal interactions with people of color, no
matter how intimate they may be, with anti‐racism. It assumes our personal associations free us
magically from our racist conditioning."

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"This diminishes the experience of people of color by telling my own story of hardship. I
lose an opportunity to learn more about the experience of racism from a person of color, while I
minimize their experience by trying to make it comparable or less painful than mine."

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This is often used when people assume they can learn about racism only from a person of color.