This is a big topic, and it will not be covered in detail here. However, a few resources will be posted, that you might find useful. 🙂
Resources and Links:
CNN: The ‘I’m not a racist’ defense.
All of this flows from white people’s deep fear of the word “racist,” which many evidently see as “the absolute worst, most vile thing you can call a person,” as former Maine Governor Paul LePage once put it. This line of thinking seems to be that if being racist is an unforgivable sin, happening to do an occasional racist thing can be immediately forgiven by one’s simply not being racist to the core. Easy enough. But this disregards the notion that more often than not in matters or race, it’s the consequences (and not the intent) that cause the hurt. (Italics mine).
Moreover, embedded in this attitude is the perverse notion that white people get to set the terms of the debate over what is racist.
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White people could start with acknowledging in their apologies that even good people are capable of doing racist things. A real expression of contrition should include: “I’m ashamed that I was capable of doing something so racist.” Or, “How I was raised decades ago is irrelevant; I did something racist today, and am sorry.” Or perhaps, “I don’t think I harbor actual animus, but regardless of whether I do, I have work to do.” (Italics mine.)
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- The Globe and Mail: Please stop asking my Canadian-born child, ‘Where are you from?’.
- Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African
- White Supremacy Was Her World. And Then She Left. Link
- The Case for Immigration as Reparations NYT
- The year of Karen: how a meme changed the way Americans talked about racism
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Jane Elliott – Famous for her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” classroom experiment. NOTE: There are lots of videos of her work online. Feel free to search for more than what there is room to post here.
HER MISSION: One Race
Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. And if you think this does not apply to you. . . you are in for a rude awakening.
Jane Elliott
