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rp @iamrachelricketts: If we want to overthrow the status quo we have to be acutely aware of the ways in which toxic white supremacy and heteropatriachy infiltrate our hearts and minds and thus our work to advance racial justice.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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We need to be diligently aware of the way anti-Blackness permeates every facet of everyone's lives, even and perhaps at times especially Black anti-racist activists and educators. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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We all have shadow work to do and I'm no exception. We need to be able to critique ourselves, our work and our community and hold ourselves to the same standard of integrity we demand of others. We need to rise above the temptations of whiteness - past the pull of fame and fortune. To humanity. And justice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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Otherwise, we are hypocrites. If we aren't striving to unearth toxic white supremacist heteropatriarchy in ourselves first - I don't know what the fuck we're striving for at all. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

 

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