Racism
Ongoing discussion…
Racism
to fully abandon an exploitative and destructive status quo, we need to dig even deeper.
Worldview-Reform
We need to not only shift our attention toward the systems level but also toward the worldviews or mental models that lie behind it.
Thomas Klaffke • From Self-Reform to Worldview-Reform
creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
I think it’s also important to admit, to attest to, and to [bear] witness to the violence of the archive of slavery, which is about erasure. There are tick marks instead of names; it’s all about the slave’s relationship to the accumulation of wealth for another. The archive doesn’t tell us the story of someone’s life.
Bettina Judd • On
Mackey borrows his title from Amiri Baraka, who aptly defines the history of white musicians profiting off of black music as turning “a verb into a noun.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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The privilege of whiteness means that one’s day-to-day life is not impacted by skin color,
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
I was a dupe, a chump who saw the ongoing struggles of Black people on MLK Day 2000 and decided that Black people themselves were the problem. This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem, instead of the policies that ensnare them.