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rp @blackvoices: Note: having just 1 POC, one Black person isn't diversity. Knowing 1 Black person isn't diversity. Nor is 2 or 3. Rethink your groups, teams, colleagues, cast! - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @blackstory1619: Tent City, also called Freedom Village, was an encampment outside of Memphis in Fayette County, Tennessee for African Americans who were evicted from their homes and blacklisted from buying amenities as retaliation for registering to vote during the Civil Rights Movement. It began in 1960 and lasted about two years.

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rp @teachfortheculture: Listen to Black people 👏INNA 👏 REAL 👏 LIFE!!!!!

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rp @blackstory1619: Designed by Richard Morris Hunt, Academic Hall rose from the banks of the Hampton River in 1869 as the first major building constructed by Hampton Institute, now Hampton University.

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rp @austinchanning: A mantra. A daily mantra. A conscientious mantra. An anti-racism journey reminder. #antiracism - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @mvmnt4blklives: We march—carrying the heavy load of grief, purpose and responsibility—knowing that when you carry any load long enough you grow stronger

We carry forward our lost and their legacy. We carry forward the fight. We march to make the road to the future we want and deserve.

We march for nothing short of liberation. At last. We fight for more than just ourselves. This fight will go beyond us!

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rp @blklivesmatter: This year has been trying for Black women — but still, we continue to rise. It’s time to pay tribute to all the divine Black women in my life, and that starts this weekend.

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rp @antiracismdaily: Don’t let the name fool you. Racial microaggressions are nothing but small. They create unsafe spaces in offices and other social settings, contribute to the stress and anxiety non-white people experience on a daily basis, and reinforce harmful stereotypes. Don't let it continue because people will think it's okay and appropriate. It can possibly get worse from there. Speak up and don't be afraid to educate them. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @moemotivate: We have to talk about the hard & uncomfortable truths & it won’t be easy!

It won’t feel good and it won’t be fun.

It can bring about healing, change & progress.

But it won’t happen if we won’t have the hard conversations. Let each other know it ain't easy, but sometimes the hardest things have the most reward. You relate? - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @blackhistory: May 18, 1912 Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist, was born in Engcobo, South Africa.

‪Sisulu moved to Johannesburg in 1928 to work at a number of manual jobs, and in 1940 joined the African National Congress (ANC).‬ Between 1953 and 1963 Sisulu was jailed seven times and in 1964 was sentenced to life imprisonment and along with Nelson Mandela spent the majority of his sentence at Robben Island.

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rp @theconsciouskids: White people can experience prejudice, but not racism.

“Racial prejudice refers to a set of discriminatory or derogatory attitudes based on assumptions deriving from perceptions about race and/or skin color. Thus, racial prejudice can indeed be directed at white people but is not considered racism because of the systemic relationship of power.

Ricky Sherover-Marcuse asserts that "we should not confuse the occasional mistreatment experienced by whites at the hands of people of color with the systematic and institutionalized mistreatment experienced by people of color at the hands of whites”.

While expressions of racial prejudice directed at white people may hurt the white person/people individually or personally, and are never to be condoned, they do not have the power or authority to affect the white person's social/economic/political location and privileges.

Reverse racism is a myth because it tries to ignore the fundamental question of who holds more power/privilege between the individuals/groups involved; the myth of reverse racism assumes that racism occurs on a so-called level playing field.“ (Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre) - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

Deal with this vs Please - Hope to dozed off the lazy bones in me @smstationeryph // #studentlife #studentproblems #estudyanteproblems #teacherlife #teacherduties #teachersofig #teacherproblems #ilovemyjob❤️ #ThankGod #SoliDeoGloria #notpattymills #PattLoves #photographyeveryday📷😍 #classroom #schoollife #mundane #insegnante

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Serious question, I’ll wait 💁‍♀️ Are you here to support or are you here for “resources” and education? Cause I’m not a resource, I’m a whole human being, and I center BIPOC not white enlightenment. So are you here for for the moment or are you here in true solidarity for the long haul? And if you’re BIPOC, let me know how you’re feeling about all this, I know you got some thoughts about what you’re witnessing! 👀- #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @laylafsaad: The work begins and ends within one’s own self. #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @uncolonial_history: Throughout history, American racists have ironically tried to use the idea of “freedom” as an excuse to oppress. Slave owners said “big government should not interfere in our right to own slaves. This is our God-given liberty.” Segregationists argued “we have the right to separate races. Stay out of our way of life.”

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rp @rachel.cargle: So when you hear someone say:

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“Why can’t we all just get along”

“Stop making it about race, were all the human race”

“It’s rude to protest because all lives matter!”

“When you bring these things up you’re just making a greater divide”

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Believe me they are NOT calling for a greater world or for true justice in humanity. They want silence of the oppressed, they want comfortability for themselves. They want to keep their boat of white privilege undocked so they don’t lose the benefits they reap in a society like ours. Remind them that peace requires justice and you won’t let things go until things are changed. #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @christenacleveland: Indeed, conversations about racial inequality are often engineered to avoid making white people feel guilty.

Inequality exists because guilty people have produced societal systems that accommodate some people and alienate others. And inequality exists because guilty people continue to benefit from these unjust societal systems. All privileged people participate in our unequal societal structure – some perpetuate it knowingly, some perpetuate it unknowingly, and others resist it as revolutionaries. All who have ever perpetuated it knowingly or unknowingly are guilty. For them, experiencing guilt is a crucial part of the justice journey. The trick is to *use guilt* rather than be *used by shame.* This is difficult because we often confuse guilt and shame. Both are moral emotions that involve feeling bad. But guilt is constructive; it focuses on an act or action that is wrong. Guilt says, "I did something wrong." On the contrary, shame is destructive; rather than focusing on an isolated act, it spreads to the whole person. "Shame says, "I am wrong." Shame makes us want to walk away from our truest selves, the divine and community. Shame makes us want to avoid the truth. Guilt is underrated. Engaging it, meditating on it, confessing it, and repenting of it can be immensely helpful in conversations about inequality and reconciliation work. Guilt should be a centerpiece of the conversation, rather than something to be avoided. How do you use guilt in your practice of justice? Do you try not to use it?

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rp @britthawthorne: This educator has a strong tendency to seek communities that are not theirs, believing their efforts of hard work will lead their learners out of poverty and into the middle class or this educator believes the learner’s community is so deficient that the learner needs to leave their community in order to be educated (scholarship).

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A Stuart Wallace original acrylic on canvas artwork.

rp @novareidofficial:

There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to be understood & not being heard. This is a constant problem between black & white folk on matters of race. Constant.

I shared a post about intent over impact & it wound some of you up. Me calling out racism, even the unintentional, (which if you follow this work, will know this is THE most insidious kind that causes more harm that overt acts of intentional hate), & I got accused of being abusive to innocent well intended people.

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rp @teachfortheculture: As educators, we are able to make the distinction (especially within our own work)!!

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rp @woketeachersL KINDNESS doesn't cut it!! Some of the cruelest things I've heard were said with a SMILE. We need to go beyond being kind, we must be ANTI-RACIST. Simple concept, now put it into play! - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @eliana.chinea: There’s nothing more annoying than reading on a website, or going to a diversity and inclusion event or panel, and hearing someone talk about D&I as merely a strategy that will make a company more money. Although yes, that is a side effect of being an ethical company, people of color are not tools or pawns for a bottom line. That is the very mindset we are trying to shift, and need to shift immediately. I realize this is not a popular opinion within the corporate world, but I’m less interested in what’s popular with a company than I am with dismantling these capitalist and dehumanizing systems of thought for the sake of the people of color working within them. Studies show the workplace is still highly segregated by race and class, with brown and black people working lower level positions and whites working upper management. Strategy alone will not solve this issue, we need to evolve the way people think about POC and breakdown race and bias to its roots. It’s time we all stop trying to make people comfortable or convince them of our humanity and start speaking the truth... NOW! #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @laylafsaad: Anti-racism is not a destination, an identity, a label, or a certification. It is a practice. And like every powerful practice that is intended to create irreversible change, it is life-long. #antiracism - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

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rp @blackhistory: six-month-old future First Lady, Claudia Alta ‘Lady Bird’ Taylor with her nursemaid, Alice Tittle in Karnack, Texas, 1913.

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As baby Claudia grew, Alice proclaimed the two-year-old “purty as a lady bird.” The nickname, which she at first despised, stuck with her ever since.

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Photo repost @r29unbothered. How to stop asking your #blackfriends dumb sh** and do the work yourself. #Invest in your learning. Stop asking us to work for you for free. Our #ancestors already built this country for free. "Comment below" ways that you are tangibly adding value to the #blackwomen who you are learning from. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @nowhitesaviors: Our struggles are particular, but we are not alone. We are not perfect, but we are stronger and wiser than the sum of our errors. Black people have been here before us and survived. We can read their lives like signposts on the road and find, as Bernice Reagon says so poignantly, that "each one of us is here because somebody before us did something to make it possible. To learn from their mistakes is not to lessen our debt to them, nor to the hard work of becoming ourselves, and effective”.

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rp @eliana.chinea: You cannot do this work passively, or from a few posts or videos. You need to be doing this work with those of us who actually know how to unpack your racism, bias, and oppressive thinking. That means actually taking a training, and no not a two hour one that barely touches the surface. You need a full comprehensive training and you need to do them twice a year at a minimum. And no, a Diversity and Inclusion training is not the same as anti-racism.

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Remember, stop hiring white folks to teach you anti racism, that’s perpetuating white supremacy. Hire BIPOC who actually do this work, not your nearest brown or black friend! Tag a brown or black friend who can help, tag your white friend who can use it! - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @theconsciouskid: tweet by Sirry Alang that reads: “A reminder that you can be very nice to Black people and still be racist. And sometimes, your niceness is driven by racist ideas. Nice ≠ antiracist, kind ≠ antiracist. Diversity ≠ Antiracism.” - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @uncolonia_history: Emancipation and self-emancipation came at different times in different places (especially considering it could either be imposed by the state/federal government OR forced by the enslaved themselves). However, once “freedom” was finally achieved, it was entirely unclear what that might mean after centuries of brutal oppression.

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rp @britthawthorne: Understand the grassroots of organizing, boycotting, marching, protesting, non-violence, justice and systemic racism. Your peers, friends, family, students, should see that they can either be racist or anti-racist. #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems