chakita1
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rp @laylafsaad: Anti-racism work is not clean, shiny and pristine. It is messy, painful and hard. When a person with white privilege gets called out/in for intentionally or unintentionally causing racist harm, this isn’t a deviation from the path of anti-racist practice. This is PART of anti-racist practice. The call out/in provides necessary information about you that have caused hurt, and presents an invitation to examine the unconscious racist thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that led to it in the first place. Yes it sucks to be called out/in. But being harmed by racism sucks more ♀️ And that’s putting it lightly. Racism kills.
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When you can release how you feel a call out “should” be done (which quite often is laden with white superiority standards of ‘correct tone’ and ‘respectability’ and racist stereotypes and anti-blackness against the Black, Indigenous, People of Colour calling you in/out), then you can answer the invitation that is being presented to you to Listen, Apologise, Make Amends, and then go Do Your Work (inner and outer) to ensure that you do better next time and don’t cause harm in the same way. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Need Approval
rp @laylafsaad: Anti-racism work is not clean, shiny and pristine. It is messy, painful and hard. When a person with white privilege gets called out/in for intentionally or unintentionally causing racist harm, this isn’t a deviation from the path of anti-racist practice. This is PART of anti-racist practice. The call out/in provides necessary information about you that have caused hurt, and presents an invitation to examine the unconscious racist thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that led to it in the first place. Yes it sucks to be called out/in. But being harmed by racism sucks more ♀️ And that’s putting it lightly. Racism kills.
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When you can release how you feel a call out “should” be done (which quite often is laden with white superiority standards of ‘correct tone’ and ‘respectability’ and racist stereotypes and anti-blackness against the Black, Indigenous, People of Colour calling you in/out), then you can answer the invitation that is being presented to you to Listen, Apologise, Make Amends, and then go Do Your Work (inner and outer) to ensure that you do better next time and don’t cause harm in the same way. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems