“When you share a Candace Owens video it becomes glaringly obvious that you don’t actually interact with or support any Black people in your personal life. It shows us how desperate you are to have your own racism and ignorance validated by the one Black person you can find to agree with you,” writes Dani…
Category: Racism
Whitney Mestelle of Inclusive Idaho Sheds Light on the Real Meaning of Black Lives Matter
The woman who raised me was born in 1935. Her mother, born in 1904. 116 years have elapsed and yet we share the same story. Yes, there are notable differences – education, socioeconomic class, and legislation that elevates my right to live in a country free of legalized segregation. There has been progress, slow, but…
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.C CLICK HERE for a plethora of useful ideas,…
Exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality
From the New Yorker: In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at discussing racism. Like waves on sand, their reactions form predictable patterns: they will insist that they “were taught to treat everyone…