Racism
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Racism
Roller skating is Black History. It’s important to recognize the huge impact that the Black community has made on roller skating, and how skating very well may not be what it is today without the impact of Black culture.
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it allows us to focus on how—rather than if—our racism is manifest. When we move beyond the good/bad binary, we can become eager to identify our racist patterns because interrupting those patterns becomes more important than managing how we think we look to others.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla F. Saad • 5 highlights
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Someone reproducing inequity through permanently assisting an overrepresented racial group into wealth and power is entirely different than someone challenging that inequity by temporarily assisting an underrepresented racial group into relative wealth and power until equity is reached.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
James Baldwin wrote, “It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Sovereignty: Who is ultimately in control, and how? Is there too much reliance on external resources? What happens to the value that derives from labor and culture? How easy is it for individuals and communities to exit if they so choose? • Democracy: How can participants be part of the flows of power? Are those flows explicitly stated and widely
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