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rp @andrearanaej: One way this shows up:

 

Well-meaning white womxn surrendering their sovereignty to black women. Diminishing the self as a means of uplifting the other. Making the self inherently bad while making the other inherently good.

 

This is a foundational element of a culture of supremacy. In this dynamic, no one gets to be whole and human.

 

Deep breath. This one isn’t as easy to share as some of my other posts. In part because a lot of us (not just white womxn) love to make ourselves inherently bad or inherently good. As my friend @inquisitive_human says, we like to passionately make out with it. It’s seductive because we either relinquish our responsibility (and therefore our power) to the other so we don’t have the carry the weight of it OR we take on all the power and responsibility and we get to experience the slight comfort of pretending that we have control in a wild world. In this, we must assign either a right/wrong or good/bad judgement. And like most either/or dynamics there’s not a lot of space for you to be human, sovereign, whole.

 

There is another way.

 

Is this resonating, challenging, upsetting, affirming? Am I wrong? (Lol) Let me know.

 

And what other ways do you see this showing up in your life or in our cultures? #antiracism - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

 

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