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RP @blackgirlthatreads. I purchased this book back in 2017 and never got around to it, but something made me pick it up the other day and I haven’t been able to put it down since.
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It’s not often that we hear the stories of resistance of those who were once enslaved. And it’s even more uncommon for us the hear their love stories. This one is tearing me to pieces because of the endless way so many pursued their loves despite the situations they faced.
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You’ll come across a man from Virginia that spent 17 years searching for his wife. A Georgia couple that set sail for England with federal troops trailing behind. A young woman that is delivered to her fiancé in a wooden chest after several hours on a steamboat. And so many more.
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited with bringing gospel music to the mainstream in the 1930s and 40s.
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On December 23, 1938, Tharpe performed at Carnegie Hall in John Hammond's Spirituals to Swing concert. Her performance was revolutionary and shocking because it involved a woman playing a guitar.
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Merging the religious and secular worlds, she later went on to play regularly with Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club. Tharpe became a crossover artist: during WWII, she recorded a "V-Disc" for troops overseas.
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Hailed as "The Godmother of Rock and Roll," Tharpe's life was detailed in an episode of American Masters on PBS. During the 1940s-60s, Tharpe introduced the spiritual passion of her gospel music into the secular world of rock ’n’ roll, inspiring some of its greatest stars, including Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard.
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Her flamboyance, skill, and showmanship on the electric guitar contributed to the conception of Rock & Roll as a genre of music.
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Repost @absorbedinpages. #MeandWhiteSupremacy began as a viral Instagram challenge with turned into a self published workbook. It is written by @LaylaFSaad and it is the answer to some big questions she wrestled with after writing her viral blog article
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It is a book of self reflection and anti-racist works that requires many different strategies, approaches, and practices for a person who holds white privilege to do the work to create necessary change within themselves and in their communities⠀
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Thanks @BookSparks for sending me a gifted copy. Have you heard of this one? Repost @absorbedinpages.
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RP @rachel.cargle. Let’s demand some change.
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Having attended PWI’s (predominantly white institutions) during the years I did pursue higher education, I was no stranger to the frustrations of micro aggressions, tone policing and silencing that black women face on campuses in particularly distressing ways.
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But one thing that bothered me most about PWI classrooms were the ways that no matter how much a school pushed for diversity in their student body or faculty hires I never saw that reflect in the teaching materials.
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I continued to sit in classrooms where whiteness was centered, and white males seemed to be the only voices of authority or expertise as black voices continued to be valued mostly in spaces where they were “explaining race”.
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Many industry cannons are whitewashed and carry heavy loads of the racism and sexism that American academia was built on. It’s nauseating really.
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I have a challenge for you: #ScourTheSyllabus🔍
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I’m interested to know do/did your teachers offer insight from marginalized communities?
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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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RP @blackgirlthatreads. [Thanks for my #gifted copy, @abramsbooks]
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If you’ve ever wondered why your grandparents or parents started their road trips at night, or why they just had to have a cooler full of food before hitting the road, you may want to read Overground Railroad.
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Candacy Taylor explores how and why Victor Green founded the Green Book, a guide that was published from 1936 to 1967 and hailed as the Bible of Black travel.
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In a time when Jim Crow was the law of the land, travel across cities and states could be dangerous for Black people. They couldn’t eat, sleep, get gas, or even shop at most of the white-owned businesses along the road. So what were they do to?
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The Green Book came along to help make the road trips a little safer and a more dignified experience for Black people. Taylor took the time to travel through the neighborhoods where these businesses once thrived to document the indelible scars that redlining, urban renewal, gentrification, and mass incarceration have left on these communities.
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I can’t wait to hear her when she comes to Houston on 2/20 because I flew through this book and learned so many random bits of info, including why older Black people *may* have an interest in Cadillacs.
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Repost @nmaahc. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball by stepping onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to play first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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More than 14,000 of the 26,000+ spectators gathered at Ebbets Field that day were black. The Dodgers called Robinson up to the major leagues before the start of the season. That day, he scored a run in the Dodgers 5-3 victory. ⠀
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Robinson almost immediately became the league's best player by virtue of his completeness. While some players were brilliant hitters or had blazing speed on the bases or were remarkable fielders, Robinson had it all.
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Exactly 50 years after he broke the color barrier, Robinson was honored as his uniform number, 42, was retired by from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by more than 50,000 at New York City’s Shea Stadium — making him the first player to have his number retired by every single team in the league.
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Repost from @moemotivate. It is a privilege to avoid these direct conversations, meanwhile I’m reminding my children yet again what to do when interacting with the police. My children. I am reminding children whose only cares in the world should be which marker they’re gonna color with or what next game they will play. Children.
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We have to watch the fear build up in their bodies (feeling sad that we’re the ones delivering the sobering news) while also trying to manage our own fears because we know the harsh reality. And we know they can’t afford to be naive. There’s too much at stake.
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We have to comfort them when they express these fears, and reassure them in ways that we hope will bring them both a sense of peace and awareness. We have to do this with children. Children. Because we know that avoiding these conversations means we’re sending them out into the word unprepared. But we also know that having these conversations interrupts the freedom of their childhood, though white supremacy has already done so.
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There is no innocence for our Blackness in a world made to protect, uphold and benefit whiteness. There’s no innocence reserved for us...yet white families desire to preserve all the innocence for their white children by avoiding these conversations all together. So the question isn’t when to talk to your child about race, but instead it must be how.
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And you don’t leave it there. You actually find out and then apply what you’re learning, daily. Because there’s never a time when racism waits for the right time to destroy our lives—it just does. Thus, everyday you need to be working to change this reality. Repost from @moemotivate.
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RP @rachel.cargle.. Original tweet from @ll_mckinney
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White populations have been putting communities of color through dystopian circumstances for centuries.
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The novel Handmaids Tale is a good example. Before you clutch your pearls in horror, consider how true the storyline is for women of color.
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“The premise of The Handmaid’s Tale is dystopic in nature and, at its core, imagines a world where white women are stripped of all their modern rights—the chief among them being autonomy over their own bodies. But as you read more into what makes this universe specifically dystopic for white women, it starts to sound a bit familiar.
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As this wonderful piece by Ana Cottle of The Establishment elaborates, white women find themselves being raped; being herded around like cattle and property; being forced to breed; being barred from coming and going as they please without some special note from their master, and adopting the name of said master as a mark of ownership; and being beaten or killed if they do not comply.
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It is a nightmare, for sure, but it is a nightmare that black women have experienced firsthand in this country and still experience in some places abroad. And ironically enough, we are erased from Atwood’s fictional and narrative hellscape just so that our struggles can be cosplayed by white women.”
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And I’m going to use the sentiments of @ll_mckinney to address those who say “well Atwood was AWARE that she was making a novel of a white dystopia based on the realities of the dystopian situations white people have put POC through for generations.” Her acknowledging that she made a profit off of the story of the pain of communities of color while not actually addressing the realities of these structures....doesn’t absolve her of participating in the collective racist imagination that white America thrives off of.
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RP @blackgirlthatreads. River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can’t imagine leaving, but three women couldn’t wait to escape.
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When each must return–Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend’s only black daughters, now a mother of two who’d planned to raise her own children anywhere else–their paths collide under Beth’s father’s roof. As one town struggles to contain all of their love affairs and secrets, a local scandal forces Beth to confront her own devastating past.
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Filled with the voices of mothers and daughters, husbands, lovers, and fathers, The House of Deep Water explores motherhood, trauma, love, loss, and new beginnings found in a most unlikely place: home.
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Repost @absorbedinpages.
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi 5☆ I read this one last month and it's one I am so proud to have read. I found it contained soooo much information that I did not know. Kendi argues here that racist ideas in America have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit⠀
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It is very dense, with a lot of information you have to go into this one willing and thirsty for knowledge and to learn and unlearn what you think you know and what you should know about America's racist past⠀
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I loved how Kendi divided it up with American thinkers such as Cotton Mather, William Lloyd Garrison WEB DuBois, and Angela Davis. He break it downs how some of these thinkers have challenged or cemented racist ideas in America⠀
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Truly a life changing, eye opening 500+ page book that truly delivers. I loved how he shed light on the history of racist ideas that you will not get in school, and offer tools at the same time to expose them and move progress to an anti-racist society. Have you read this one yet? Is it on your list? Repost @absorbedinpages.
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RP @blackgirlthatreads. Y’all know I’m a huge fan of Dr. Daina Ramey Berry!
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Since meeting her in Houston about two years ago, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book. She’s one of the few historians that no matter what they put out, I’m going to make sure I support it. So here we are!
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A Black Woman’s History of the United States, co-authored with Dr. Kali Nicole Gross, offers an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African woman who arrived in what became the United States.
Their goal in writing this was not to offer a comprehensive history of Black women in the United States, but instead they wanted to offer a vivid introduction that celebrates our diversity and inspires readers to seek out more on their own.
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I’ve made it my goal to slowly read this over the course of the month so stayed tuned for bits and pieces that stand out to me!
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James Baldwin was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, essayist, poet and activist whose writings explored themes of race, sexuality, and class.
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He moved abroad in his early twenties to distance himself from American prejudice and spent most of his life living away from the United States. Fleeing the racial oppression of America gave Baldwin the distance to examine his homeland - and his identity within it as a black, gay man raised in the impoverished neighborhoods of Harlem. ⠀ ⠀
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Despite his distance, Baldwin and his work remained deeply American. He frequently returned to the United States as a speaker and activist during the most tumultuous years of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Baldwin also maintained close relationships with civil rights leaders living in the U.S. and other literary heavyweights like Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou. As a journalist, he reported on significant historical events, particularly in the South, and he attended major marches, including the 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March. Whenever he was called upon to do so, he lent his presence and his voice at various types of legal proceedings. Equally as significant, he met with lawmakers at the highest levels of United States government to help eradicate racial segregation and violence.
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RP @rachel.cargle. The institution of academia — made up of a large percentage of PWI’s (Predominantly White Institutions)— presents knowledge to us in a way that suggests white people are the knowers and everything and everyone else is to be known, explored, studied and scrutinized under their white gaze and white perspective. That the knowledge produced by white researchers and intellectuals holds more weight in the cannon even moreso than the peoples they are studying (most often people of color and other “exotic” communities around the world).
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*cancels subscription to white centered academia* Whiteness is not the default of existence. Whiteness is not the root of knowledge. Whiteness is not the only type of minds from which critical development can come.
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✊Decolonize intellect. Honor the intellect of people of color
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Tag the academic you love (whether they are affiliated with an institution or not as both are valid!) to let them know you see and honor the work they put in, the knowledge they create, the genius they hold.
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Repost @absorbedinpages. A Particular Kind of Black Man is a debut novel from Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life
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Described as sweeping, stirring and perspective shifting — a beautiful exploration of the meaning of memory, manhood, home, and identity as seen through the eyes of a first generation Nigerian-American
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I’ve been wanting to read a book on immigration and assimilation for a while now. Do you have certain themes that you like to read about and that just call to you? Repost @absorbedinpages.
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Black stories have power. Repost @absorbedinpages.
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Photo by @chocolatecitycomics. Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: A portrait of two different voices whose demands for black equality gave rise to gains in American civil rights.
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ACTION: What did you learn about these leaders in school?
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Repost from @moemotivate. I can’t emphasize this enough. Anti-racism is a lifelong practice. It’s a daily quest to learn and unlearn. It’s a on-going commitment. It is not about being a good person or feeling good about yourself, it’s about doing the right thing.
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It’s about centering the pain and progress of Black people and people of color. It’s about identifying and eliminating racism from attitudes, beliefs, systems, structures and culture and redistributing resources equitably. It’s about humanity.
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And therefore it’s a life long commitment that has no destination, just on-going growth and progress. It’s not an identity or a achievement...it’s a daily practice of choosing to dismantle white supremacy, identifying and relinquishing white privilege and breaking down these structures that dehumanize us.
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It’s about coming to a place where we can all live freely in our full humanity. Thus it’s not something you are or become, but it’s something you actively choose to do—daily. So I ask you, what are you doing TODAY to prioritize anti-racism? Repost from @moemotivate.
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Repost from @moemotivate. I can’t emphasize this enough. Anti-racism is a lifelong practice. It’s a daily quest to learn and unlearn. It’s a on-going commitment. It is not about being a good person or feeling good about yourself, it’s about doing the right thing.
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It’s about centering the pain and progress of Black people and people of color. It’s about identifying and eliminating racism from attitudes, beliefs, systems, structures and culture and redistributing resources equitably. It’s about humanity.
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And therefore it’s a life long commitment that has no destination, just on-going growth and progress. It’s not an identity or a achievement...it’s a daily practice of choosing to dismantle white supremacy, identifying and relinquishing white privilege and breaking down these structures that dehumanize us.
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It’s about coming to a place where we can all live freely in our full humanity. Thus it’s not something you are or become, but it’s something you actively choose to do—daily. So I ask you, what are you doing TODAY to prioritize anti-racism? Repost from @moemotivate.
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#YourMorningTea Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life (but) by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. —Booker T. Washington
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#YourMorningTea The time is always right to do what is right. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I’ve got some questions for you…
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Have you ever wondered why you feel comfortable and even justified in asking for the free labor and access to women of color, especially black women?
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Have you considered that not only do we not owe anyone anything, but that a way to redistribute power is to ensure that women of color are paid and paid well?
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Have you ever asked yourself why you believe you’re the exception?
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Repost @absorbedinpages. What’s the definition of a ‘heavy’ read for you?
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For me, it means anything that can give me a visceral experience while reading whether it’s dealing with topics of slavery, abuse, or other topics. Also, it could be something that really challenges me when reading, or if the writing is dense⠀
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This will always be one of the things I love about reading — challenging myself and learning. Repost @absorbedinpages.
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#YourMorningTea He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. —Muhammad Ali
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#RP @theblackdetour To be a negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. -James Baldwin
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#YourMorningTea If there is no struggle, there is no progress. —Frederick Douglass
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#YourMorningTea One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.—Franklin Thomas
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Repost from @moemotivate. What was the defining moment for you?
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When did you realize that sitting on the sidelines and observing wasn’t enough? When did you decide that saying “I don’t know where to start” was no longer acceptable for you?
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When did you decide that you actually want to be a part of the solution and be on the just and humane side of history?
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When did you decide that you can actually do something about racism and that you don’t have to have all the answers?
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When did you decide that starting right where you are and with what you have was better than not starting at all?
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What was the defining moment for you? Maybe you haven’t had a defining moment and you’re still sitting in the background...what will it take for you to see that you have a big responsibility in changing the world around you?
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What might it take for you to see that this work is for you too? This month the enrollment for the next round of the Unity Over Comfort program opens up and I’m switching things up a bit in this round. Repost from @moemotivate.
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RP @blackgirlthatreads Conversations in Black brings together some of the most prominent Black Americans to answer critical questions affecting our nation. Each chapter asks a few questions to which there are several responses to (think panel style but in book format). Comment with the name of the last book you read by a Black author. Comment "thanks for the resource" if this book interests you.
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Repost from @moemotivate. There’s nothing comfortable or convenient about experiencing racism yet we deal with it everyday.
But it doesn’t have to be this way and it will take white people doing their part to change this reality.
There’s no perfect time or place to engage in this work—the time is now. Repost from @moemotivate
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Rp @jane_elliot_. White people's number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white.
We don't have to learn about those who are other than white.
And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant. -Jane Elliott #whitewashing #chakitasharnise #Whitefragility - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @chakitasharnise. Slavery is OUR history. A shared history. The history of America. Viewing slavery as exclusively Black is a way to skate away from accountability and responsibility. It provides an out - an opportunity to use privilege to ignore the ugly parts of American history to "feel better." It's whitewashing in such a subtle and manipulative way.
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