Considering that most Institutions of higher education (IHEs) are predominately White institutional spaces, it is hardly surprising that race and Whiteness are ignored. The authors argue that a central part of the mechanisms that maintain White racial equilibrium and facilitate marginalization is discursive. White ways with words protect White racial privileges and are for the most part taken for granted and never examined. Recognizing the importance of a shared vocabulary to acknowledge the ways in which White people silence and invalidate what Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) have to say, the authors began to name and define "White Talk Moves." White Talk Moves are speech acts that White people employ consciously or less than consciously to avoid talking about race and to maintain the accumulated privilege and status that accompanies Whiteness. Some terms such as "White tears" and "tone policing" appear prominently in the literature, and the authors have identified other terms through interactions and experiences in predominantly White public spaces. The authors argue that refusal to acknowledge and disrupt--at the moment of utterance--denies the ways that words support and affirm the very structure that leads to enduring racial marginalization.