What-motivates-white-supremacists. The sight of torch-wielding, chanting white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, jarred the country over the weekend, a national distress that only deepened when a counter-protester died and 19 others were wounded in a car attack there on Saturday.
An alleged white supremacist, James Alex Fields Jr., has been charged in that attack. White supremacy — the view that white people are racially superior — and neo-Nazism are nothing new, of course. But recent research suggests the ideologies are becoming louder. A 2016 report from George Washington University's Program on Extremism, for example, found that white nationalist organizations have seen their follower numbers on Twitter grow by more than 600 percent since 2012.
These groups had 3,542 followers collectively in 2012. Embrace your race privilege — Anti-Racism Daily. What is race privilege?
Privilege is, simply put, “a set of unearned benefits given to people who fit into a specific social group” (Everyday Feminism). There's a lot of different types of privilege, including privilege based on gender, sexual identity, able-bodiedness, academic background, and socio-economic status. But today, we're focusing on race privilege, which centers our racial identity. Nonbinary Wiki. Black Lives Matter Resources. Notice the Rage. Notice the Silence., by On Being. Krista Tippett, host: Resmaa Menakem is a therapist and trauma specialist who activates the wisdom of elders and a very new science, about how all of us carry the history and traumas behind everything we collapse into the word “race” in our bodies.
He helps explain why vulnerabilities and inequities laid bare by the pandemic have fallen hardest on Black bodies. He illuminates why all of the best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near healing. We recorded this interview just before lockdown, in Minneapolis, where we both live and work. We offer up Resmaa Menakem’s intelligence on changing ourselves at a cellular level — as, in Minneapolis and beyond, this nation again confronts terrible patterns that have crossed so many generations. And I’m grateful that I was able to speak with him across a table pre-social distancing. Race and Healing: A Body Practice. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.”
“Your body — all of our bodies — are where changing the status quo must begin.” Find a quiet place and experience this short, simple body practice offered in Resmaa’s conversation with Krista on the On Being episode, ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence.’ 5 Racist Anti-Racism Responses “Good” White Women Give to Viral Posts — KatyKatiKate.
Now is the time to #amplifymelanatedvoices!
You’ve probably seen the video of Amy Cooper, member of the white women’s masked anti-leash-law brigade, freaking the fuck out at a Black birder named Chris Cooper (no relation, OBVIOUSLY, I don’t even know why I had to say that) in Central Park. He asked her to leash her dog. She refused. Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality. Show up and Serve for White Coaches. Antiracism & Decolonization Resources for Change — Nikka Karli. A Call to White People: It’s Time to Live in the Answer. By Melia LaCour This is a call to white people.
No, this is not a list of ten things you can do to end racism. Nor is this a multi-step roadmap to guide you from racist to ally. And no, this is not a solvent to relieve white guilt. This is in fact a call, erupting from the soil, soaked with the blood of my Black ancestors who have suffered multi-generational trauma from the intentional destruction and lynching of beautiful Black people. Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' Race, Gender and Gynecological History in America. Resources - White Awake. Below are significant resources that can provide a foundational understanding of the themes listed.
Note that some resources are listed in more than one place. As much as possible, we’ve ordered resources such that shorter items precede longer items. Neither the themes, nor lists of resources, are meant to be exhaustive. Self education is a lifelong journey. Guidance on how to incorporate different themes and resources into a group experience can be found on our Guiding Group Work and Sample Curriculum pages, and is also available through consultation. Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer.
It’s a Wednesday night at a bookstore in a well-off part of Washington, D.C., and every seat is taken.
More than 100 people spill into the aisles or crowd the stacks past the philosophy and cookbook sections to hear Ibram X. Kendi talk about the racist ideas that founded the nation. About how racial progress is always followed by new and more sophisticated racist progress. And, especially, about the deeply held beliefs that most Americans, including black people and liberal whites, woke up with this morning that they don’t even know are racist and wrong.
Resmaa Menakem — ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’ Krista Tippett, host: Resmaa Menakem is a therapist and trauma specialist who activates the wisdom of elders and a very new science, about how all of us carry the history and traumas behind everything we collapse into the word “race” in our bodies.
He helps explain why vulnerabilities and inequities laid bare by the pandemic have fallen hardest on Black bodies. He illuminates why all of the best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near healing. If We Defund the Police, We Must Also Decriminalize Sex Work and Drugs. Durkan, do your beloved budget cuts here...
Charles Mudede What was seemingly unthinkable only two weeks ago is being openly debated at every level of the national discourse, from the street to the mainstream media: defunding the police. Minneapolis City Council obtained a "veto-proof majority" to dismantle its city's police department and rebuild "a new system of public safety. " And New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, pledged to cut the budget of the largest police department in the US, NYPD, and reallocate the funds to social services. In Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan is facing growing demands to cut SPD's budget by 50 percent.
Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources. Anti-Racism & Somatic Abolitionism Resources — Embodied Trauma Community. We all have a role to play in the dismantling of systems and ideologies of oppression that devalue and dehumanize our brothers and sisters of color. This critical work can feel overwhelming - especially in moments like this (when the veil that thinly disguises what’s really happening is pulled back) and for people who’ve never realized how pervasive racism (white body supremacy) is, and therefore haven’t considered the active participation that’s required to end it. We need to do more. Resmaa Menakem — ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’
14 Anti-Racism Educators & Activists To Follow And Support Online. As the Black Lives Matter movement urges an acceleration of anti-racism work, many people are asking “what’s next?” Here’s what’s next: action and education. This list contains 14 Black educators, activists, and organizations who are specifically working on anti-racism education and advocating for the end of state violence against Black communities. This is not a trend: these activists have been speaking out against systemic racism for years, and will continue to do so. Black Lives Matter Resources. Books. 10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Colour To Explain Things For You – DocPlay Articles. Ben Clay June 3, 2020 Comments(0) If you, like many of us, are finding it hard to articulate how to discuss issues of racism, injustice, discrimination and privilege, we’d like to encourage you to take some time to learn and listen.
Take some time to watch some (or all) of these important documentaries about race, racial prejudices and privilege within our society. The Tall Man When Cameron Doomadgee was found dead in his Palm Island Police station cell, his injuries were like those of someone who’d been in a fatal car crash. Riots Are the American Way. - Dialogue & Discourse - Medium.
Let’s Talk About the Real Looting Going On in America. After the murder of George Floyd at the hand of Officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota, protests and uprisings have begun to surface across the nation. As is so often the case when people of color and even white allies are raising their voices and demonstrating against the continued abuse and brutality at the hands of white supremacy and the state, opposition is quick to dismiss their efforts and message by any means necessary. Not for the first time opponents to the demonstrations have chastised the activists, arguing that the looting and rioting destroys their credibility and achieves nothing. LAYLA F. SAAD. Embodied antiracism for white people. The answer to police violence is not 'reform'. It's defunding. Here's why. Very time protests erupt after yet another innocent black person is killed by police, “reform” is meekly offered as the solution.
But what if drastically defunding the police – not reform – is the best way to stop unnecessary violence and death committed by law enforcement against communities of color? Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by a police officer who kneeled on his neck for over eight minutes, has tried reform already. Anti-racism resources for white people. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reflects on George Floyd protests. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar defends protests and says racism is deadlier than Covid-19 in powerful LA Times op-ed.
Thread by @ericabuddington: This #thread is for those of you struggling to comprehend that the recent murders are just a fraction of racial violence in the United State…