This is the issue:

>>You can't on the one hand, decry racism, and on the other hand, embrace white privilege.

Freire's Pedagogy of Freedom explores new and more communicative ways of constructing educational theory. The book also provides a history of liberal colonialism as a basis for the theory. For example, in the foreword Donaldo Macedo writes about liberals who safely display their presumed benevolence toward a subordinate cultural group without having to accept that, because of privilege, they are part of a social order that created that reality.

"The position of many liberals in the United States is similar to that of the leftist colonialists, who, in trying to avoid destroying their own position of cultural privilege, found themselves caught in an unavoidable contradiction. This contradiction surfaces often when liberals feel threatened by the legitimacy of the subordinate group's struggle--a struggle that may not only include them but also demand that their liberal treatment of oppression as abstract ideas be translated into concrete political action." pg xxvvii

Freire believed there is a place for liberals in the struggle and held that humanized society required cultural freedom or the ability of the individual to choose values and rules of conduct that violate conventional social norms.