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Chakita Sharnise (15)
RP @rachel.cargle. The point of anti racism work isn’t to sift through and find all the ‘good white people’.
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The point of anti racism work isn’t a practice in white self improvement so that they can proclaim to be ‘one of the good ones’.
The point of anti racism work isn’t to simply gain allies.
The point of anti racism work is to upend the systems of grave injustice that have been braided into the “normalcy” of this country fabric, into it’s morals, into it’s institutions, into the air we are all breathing.
The point of anti racism work is to protect black existence. To keep alive the body and spirit of our babies, our mothers, our cousins, our uncles, our grandmothers, our neighbors. It’s black liberation, it’s black reparations, it’s black lives mattering.
The “sameness” mentioned in my response is the reality that no matter how ‘good’ of a white person you feel yourself to be, it doesn’t erase the realities that you are benefitting from the white supremacist structures that comprise this country — the same ones that are keeping black people marginalized, oppressed, silenced and killed.
It is not enough to be anti racist and Angela Davis reminds us.
I’ve no interest in existing “a little safer” in a ship that was never built for me to survive in. I want a brand new vessel.
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Chakita Sharnise (15)
RP @rachel.cargle. The point of anti racism work isn’t to sift through and find all the ‘good white people’.
...
The point of anti racism work isn’t a practice in white self improvement so that they can proclaim to be ‘one of the good ones’.
The point of anti racism work isn’t to simply gain allies.
The point of anti racism work is to upend the systems of grave injustice that have been braided into the “normalcy” of this country fabric, into it’s morals, into it’s institutions, into the air we are all breathing.
The point of anti racism work is to protect black existence. To keep alive the body and spirit of our babies, our mothers, our cousins, our uncles, our grandmothers, our neighbors. It’s black liberation, it’s black reparations, it’s black lives mattering.
The “sameness” mentioned in my response is the reality that no matter how ‘good’ of a white person you feel yourself to be, it doesn’t erase the realities that you are benefitting from the white supremacist structures that comprise this country — the same ones that are keeping black people marginalized, oppressed, silenced and killed.
It is not enough to be anti racist and Angela Davis reminds us.
I’ve no interest in existing “a little safer” in a ship that was never built for me to survive in. I want a brand new vessel.
.
.
.
#UnitedStreetTours #blackhistory #Allyship #changingthenarrative #inclusion #love #antiracism #nashville #nashvillehistory #musiccity #united #nashvilleblackhistory #WhiteAllies #Racialjustice #blacklivesmatter #Racism #Antiracist #antiracism #whitewashing #chakitasharnise #Whitefragility #buyblack #WhiteAlly #reparations #blackowned #FemaleEntrepreneur #feminist #feminism #antiracisteveryday