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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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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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Comment ‘Amen’ if you agree.

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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 @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

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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I did see the whole show.

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

rp @wellreadblackgirl: It all starts now; this exact moment. We have no time to waste, when Black lives are lost and days go by where justice isn't being served for the officers responsible for it. #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @mvmnt4blklives: In this unprecedented time, the collective consciousness of the nation is rapidly shifting and has led our society to begin addressing both the historical atrocities and the contemporary harms Black and Indigenous peoples suffer because of ongoing subjugation and oppression. Let us remember that the prosperity and wealth of this nation was derived from the blood of slave labor on stolen land from indigenous people.

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rp @wearepushblack: in 1963, 200,000 people swarmed the nation's capital for the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. The monumental event organized by civil rights activist we know and love like Dr.Martin Luther King Jr., Congressman John Lewis, and A. Philip Randolph helped ignite a national awakening around systemic racism and economic injustice.

At a time when our rights are still being threatened, Black unemployment rates are at an all-time high and organizing is more challenging than ever, it's important we honor and uplift this monumental display of Black unity and those that brought it to pass. In the late congressman's words, we must "GET IN to the revolution that is sweeping this nation.. Get in and stay in the streets of every city, every village of this nation .. until true freedom comes."

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rp @andrearanaej: For you people who own a business, lead an organization, have a lil side business, freelancers, creatives, coaches, healers or are working on starting up any of these efforts and want to show up to their work with integrity and truly serve their communities. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

Photo cred @lbooknerd. “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”

― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give #buyblack #WhiteAlly #reparations - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @blackvoices: Said by the well-known trailblazer and activist Rosa Parks. We shouldn't fear protesting for keeping Black lives alive. PEOPLE alive—dismantling racism, defunding the ones who KILL with little to no consequences. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @thedailyshow: We're not accepting this anymore! If nothing is done, if another Black life is taken, there WILL be change. We're not asking, we're not requesting, we're not begging. We're protesting. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @diversifyournarrative: It shouldn't be so hard. It shouldn't be this tiring and uncomfortable right? Nope. Fighting for differences to be accepted has never been easy. Being demoted, beaten, uncared for, discriminated and everything in between made it much harder. Do your work! Help, contribute, speak, act to make pushing this weight off each other's shoulders. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @theconsciouskid: “I don’t think people of color expect us not to have racism. And not to, on occasion, show that racism. It’s not intentional, but there's no way I am going to be free of it. My experience is that what people of color are looking for is repair. Where can we go with it when I show it, and if we can talk about it, you’re more likely to trust me. Even though you know I have these racist patterns. If we can’t talk about it, we’re probably not going to have an authentic relationship.” —Dr. Robin DiAngelo - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @blackstory1619: Medgar Evers embraces friends James Meredith (left), the first black student to enroll in the University of Mississippi with Evers' help), and iconic writer James Baldwin (right), who covered the civil rights movement for magazines like The New Yorker. Van Evers stands in front.

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Most Americans are largely uninformed of our nation's history of white supremacy and racial terror (Noelle Hurd). With the recent attention spotlighting the Confederate flag, let's talk about the Civil War.

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Hurd goes on to remind us that the Civil War was fought over slavery and one of its offshoots – the convict-lease system – did not end until the 1940s

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The Civil War was fought over the South’s desire to maintain the institution of slavery in order to continue to profit from it. It is not possible to separate the Confederacy from a pro-slavery agenda and curriculums across the nation must be clear about this fact.

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After the end of the Civil War, southern whites sought to keep slavery through other means. Following a brief post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction, white southerners created new laws that gave them legal authority to arrest blacks over the most minor offenses, such as not being able to prove they had a job.

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While imprisoned under these laws, Black people were then leased to corporations and farms where they were forced to work without pay under extremely harsh conditions. This “convict leasing” was, as many have argued, slavery by another name and it persisted until the 1940s. Comment "no more whitewashed history" if you want history unwhitewashed.

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rp @teachfortheculture: In application of becoming anti-racist, in order to break the cycle and contribution to racism, white supremacy and more, you have to remove yourself. Don't associate with that cycle, create your own, partake in the cycle of demanding justice and becoming anti-racist. Shift gear. #antiracism - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @teachfortheculture: you cannot even TOUCH upon “anti-racist teaching”, if you, yourself, are not constantly engaged in your own deep and critical thinking and interrogative thought! — Most often racism THRIVES below the surface level, so if you are staying at the surface, you’re missing 95% of what’s really going on. — #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @blairimani: What we can no longer do is silence one another. When we exclaim BLACK LIVES MATTER we cannot allow retorts. We must make our system reflect that truth and built a new one around that truth. If it is between your own privilege and a better tomorrow and you’ve been waiting for an invitation:

THE TIME IS NOW.

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rp @loveoffering: it’s choosing to show up for yourself,

when you don’t feel like it.

it’s seeking help when everything in you

is fighting the feeling.

it’s standing up for others even if those you love look down on you for doing so.

it’s saying no. being firm with your no.

and honoring your boundaries, unapologetically.

it’s surrounding yourself with a support system that is pushing you to grow, beyond comfort.

this is the year of empowerment.

we are growing into ourselves.

we are entering a space of resilience

while being refined.

so keep healing.

keep fighting.

keep growing.

it’s only forward from here. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @moemotivate: Have you ever spilled food on a shirt?

I do pretty much everyday.

But I never do it on purpose.

I never plan to do it either.

But it still happens & I still end up w/ stains that sometimes won’t come out.

And while racism isn’t something that can be washed away w/ a good detergent, but it’s helpful to use analogies to simplify complex or abstract concepts.

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rp @changecadet: Anytime you hear a family member or friend say this or it's the message from your work leadership it is YOUR responsibility to remind them that it's a humanity issue. Be uncomfortable. Do the work. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @iamrachelricketts: Let us lead with authenticity + integrity, or not at all. Antiracism is constant and consistent work. More than actions and words. What do you put into your antiracism journey? - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

rp @woketeachers: Remember, no one is born racist or antiracist; these result from the choices we make. Being antiracist results from a conscious decision to make frequent, consistent, equitable choices daily. These choices require ongoing self-awareness and self-reflection as we move through life.

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