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Rp @equalitylabs This is a time where we are calling in South Asians to reassess how they have not done the work around prison or police abolition, caste abolition, gender and religion based oppression, and now shout #DefundThePolice. Yes, we must divest from the police and invest in Black communities —- but Savarna organizations and people can’t erase their history of complicity in anti-Blackness, their history of pushing for more brown police rather than against police, or for normalizing Hindu fascism. Now is the time to reflect. See you in our conversation next week. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @teachfortheculture: Don't allow racism to spread, and engulf the space where some kids love to be. Don't let racism take it away, class unenjoyable, friends impossible to find. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @wherechangestarted: antiracism work is interdisciplinary. Always has been. Always will be.
For the last few weeks, I have come under fire for speaking about *human behaviors* in my work as they relate to antiracism. It has been said that, without a background in psychology, there is no way my work could be my own and therefore, must be misappropriated knowledge from someone else. This is categorically untrue.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a theologian. W.E.B Du Bois was a historian and sociologist. James Baldwin was a novelist. Audre Lorde was a librarian. None of them were psychologist. Yet all of their words have informed the foundation of so many of our own today in one way or another.
Political scientists have been discussing political behaviors since it became a field of study. It is quite literally the job of campaign strategists and legislative analysts to know and understand how and why certain constituents (humans, btw) will respond to policy initiatives the way they do. That includes understanding and predicting their responses to racialized stimuli.
Things like “racial triggers” have been written about in law review articles regarding their impact on legal processes like voir dire, more commonly known as jury selection, since the 1980s. A jury is a flipping group of your peers (humans, btw). Meaning, lawyers and legal scholars have been talking about racial triggers as they relate human behavior since the 1980s.
Anyone with a background in those areas who understands that race is a political construct and that racism is systemic problem in need of a systemic fix, would be able to discuss antiracism from those perspectives of human behavior with ease. Because antiracism work is interdisciplinary and no one field of study has the monopoly over it and no one person can lay claim to concepts that have been developing long before any individual living today entered into this work. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @rachel.cargle: there must be grappling with the way you are both woman AND white. There is a part of your existence that has been defined around the oppression of others. The construct of whiteness is simply a power structure of anti-blackness and your womanhood doesn’t rid you of that.
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With that being said, the systems of racism that are still very real and very active in our world are of benefit to white women while black women exist under both patriarchy and white supremacy. #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @workingclasshistory: 24 September 1968, 14 men (including five priests and a minister) raided a federal office in downtown Milwaukee, took 10,000 draft cards, and set them on fire with homemade napalm in protest against the Vietnam War.
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Repost @absorbedinpages. One of the things I loved STOP TELLING #WOMEN TO #SMILE (@sealpress) is how #inclusive it was.
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh uses her #streetart portraits to explore how women, and non-binary persons experience street harassment in their #communities. Tatyana is so talented truly.
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Seeing her illustrations in the book really brought her mission for STWTS to #life. I really appreciate this debut so much, and I would highly recommend if you are interested in #socialjustice issues. Comment "thanks for the resource" if this book interests you. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @ theconsciouskid Racism is not limited to the individual choices of "bad people". It is structural and embedded into all aspects of society—this includes laws, dominant cultural norms, and our very own consciousness.
The actions of Amy Cooper and the police officers in Minneapolis occur within contexts and histories of power and privilege. While social and professional consequences for their individual behaviors are absolutely essential, we also need to understand how individual acts of racism are a reflection of systemic (structural) racism.
We hope this breakdown of individual vs. structural racism is useful.
#AmyCooper #GeorgeFloyd #Antiracism #Antiracist #BlackLivesMatter - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
My Anti-Racism ❌Journey Towards Reparations
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Earlier this year, I quietly launched ✈️an invite only, Anti-Racism ❌learning community for a group of people who benefit from white privilege💅. The community goal is to go beyond becoming educated and actually do the work♂️.
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The beauty of the program is that it is a raw, tell-it-like-it-is approach ♀️to ❌anti-racism. Why is it raw? Because I don’t have the energy to code-switch ♀️or to uphold white fragility anymore. Reclaiming my time!
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Black people have a unique superhero ability to code switch♂️, meaning change the way we talk 👄and present 💃ourselves to become more acceptable✅ and accessible 🚪in a white world. But shape-shifting is exhausting and it hinders real connections.
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So my clients “get the real.” I’m proud to lead such an incredible group who have made a huge impact in the community by giving their time⏰, energy🔥, insights👀, and monetary contributions💸.
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The interesting thing is that social distancing has allowed me to increase ☄️my leadership capacity📈. This week, we start accepting new people into the program. I’m excited to help more people incorporate a Karen-Proof Way of Living for the next chapter in life.
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If you know someone who is interested, feel free to click the link in bio that says STEP 1 and join us. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Repost @nmaahc. #TheNationofIslam is a political and #religiousmovement founded by #WallaceFardMuhammad that emerged in the 1930s.
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By creating a #businessempire that included farms, bakeries, supermarkets, and restaurants, the Nation of Islam provided employment for its members.
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The Nation of Islam reinforced #BlackPower #philosophy by insisting that #blackAmericans have control over their own businesses, schools, and community organizations. #TheNation described the philosophy of the #civilrightsmovement as “turn the other cheek” and criticized the movement for its #integrationist goals.
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By 1964 the Nation of Islam had grown to over 300,000 members and distributed 500,000 copies a week of its newspaper, #MuhammadSpeaks. The Nation’s philosophy, especially as conveyed by #MalcolmX between 1957 and 1964, inspired a commitment to #blackliberation, including the development of #blackownedbusinesses and a rejection of integration. Comment "Just say no to whitewashed history!" if you want more #blackhistory facts. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Rp @wearepushblack. Abducted as toddlers, brothers George and Willie Muse needed a miracle. Forced into a powerful and extremely racist circus, their family crafted a plan to save them from the barbaric practice of turning Black children into “freak” show attractions. #changingthenarrative #inclusion #love - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
#DateNight During the first year of our relationship, we went on a date every week.
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I remember the stressors of being an educator hitting me like a brick every Wednesday before I met him and we started going on date nights . Laser tag, golf, art crawls, go-kart racing , staycations, and checking out the newest black-owned businesses in Nashville. We did it all!
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Then my entrepreneur journey started. I became a workaholic and date night faded out of the picture. I became so focused on building the life that we envisioned that I forgot about enjoying the here and now .
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Welp, I’m happy to say that date nights are back! Each and every, Friday I get to fall in love over and over again. Tag a Nashville-based companies we should visit (post quarantine).
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#blacklove #unity #love #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Photo cred @lbooknerd. “I believe my purpose is to bring joy to people, to make them laugh, and to share my story to help them.
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To show people that no matter what, they matter, and they can succeed. No matter how bad things go, no matter how dark your life is, there is a reason for it. You can find beauty in it, and you can get better. I know, because I’ve done it. That’s why my comedy so often comes from my pain. In my life, and I hope in yours, I want us to grow roses out of the poop.” ― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn #feminism #antiracisteveryday #nashvillehistory #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @blackwomenradicals: We honor the work of Mozambican women’s freedom fighters and revolutionaries such as Josina Machel and Marina Machinuapa who were on the frontlines of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Mozambique Liberation Front) (FRELIMO), which formed in the country in the 1960s. The FRELIMO ousted and defeated Portuguese colonial forces on June 25, 1975.
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rp @sincerely.lettie: There's no justification in Black lives being taken. There's no justification for Daniel Prude having a mental episode and being murdered by police in another one of their gruesome ways. Those who seek justification in these killings are the ones reading the newspapers, created by Trump, created by white supremacists—to learn to hate, who fail to see.
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rp @magthehistorian: Desmond Tutu: a South African Anglican cleric who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa... spoke the #truth of then and the #truth of now, Where do you stand? - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @ibramxk: To be Black in racist America is to be armed and dangerous even when we are unarmed and walking away. This is the insanity of racist ideas. This is the cruelty of racist power and policies that protect police violence and not Black lives. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @moemotivate: We go far beyond surface level and expose the hard and necessary truths in an effort to identify and eliminate racism.
And there’s no way to do that without actively participating in the process.
The only way is truth and unfortunately for many of you and for all most of your lives you’ve believed half-truths , racist beliefs and biased opinions that have kept you silent and inactive for so long—but it doesn’t have to be that way.
But the only way to change the world around us is to change ourselves.
You don’t get to a completely new and liberated society for all by doing the same things you’ve been doing!
Change must come and you must actively participate in the change or get out of the way.
Whose gonna grab this last seat in a program that will transform you—if you allow it. #antiracism - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @brenebrown: From the dehumanizing language and policy of this administration, to the history of white women using the performative “quiver of fear” when calling the police to report innocent black men, to police brutality, the system is working exactly how it was designed.
The system is not broken. This is the expansive and intricate system of dehumanization that was constructed to support white supremacy and slavery.
The system is more complex now, but one thing remains at the center: We, the white folks, are the conduit for the system. It was built to serve us. When we do nothing it surges through us. To end racism, we have to break the system. We have to see it and fight against it - we have to be anti-racist.
There are many ways to break and rebuild. But here’s what I know for sure:
The most important anti-racism work I’ve done over the past 20 years and that I’m still doing is taught and led by people with the lived experience of racial oppression - NOT white people. This includes my professors, writers, activists, bosses, and mentors. For me, it’s also about seeing, sharing, and honoring the lived experiences of my friends whose realities are/were clearly different than mine.
Our job is to seek out the teaching, value it, submit to the pain of learning without asking our teachers to absolve us or add our emotions to their load, and know that being held accountable is hard and painful. And part of learning is acting and doing. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @blackvoices: In it, the legendary civil rights leader implored younger generations to continue his work fighting for racial equity and justice. Lewis wrote that this summer’s nationwide anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests “filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story.” - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @decolonizemyself: We can't make our siblings and kids live in a world like this, a country like this. Our lifetimes' and journeys' of antiracism work is more than for us and our generation. More for our past generation(s). For the future once and for all. #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @ckyourprivilege:
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rp @ibramxk: Myths are constraining too many parents from talking to their children about racism, and from actively raising their kids to be antiracist. #antiracism #antiracisteveryday - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @blackhistoryforwhitepeople: The majority of police officers are great and heroic, but if you have systems that protect the bad apples then it pulls the whole system down. Therefore, it's not loving to support those systems.
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