Racism
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Racism
Four Heated Discussions I’ve Had with My White Husband Since November 8, 2016
Angela Garbesangelagarbes.substack.com
But this isn’t about good and bad people. The covert nature of structural racism is difficult to hold to account. It slips out of your hands easily, like a water-snake toy. You can’t spot it as easily as a St George’s flag and a bare belly at an English Defence League march. It’s much more respectable than that.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
“Our Constitution is color-blind,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Harlan proclaimed in his dissent to Plessy v. Ferguson, the case that legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896. “The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country,” Justice Harlan went on. “I doubt not, it will continue to be for all time, if it remains true to its
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Compassion practice motivates wise action.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
When we can begin to tap into the deep vessel of who we truly are, so many things would end about oppression. I believe the powers that be don’t want us rested because they know that if we rest enough, we are going to figure out what is really happening and overturn the entire system. Exhaustion keeps us numb, keeps us zombie-like, and keeps us on... See more
The Founder of the Nap Ministry on the Ways Rest Can Be a Form of Resistance
accustomed to a life of burden as our appetite for liberation wanes.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
This is a process of decolonization. Whether you are the descendants of colonizers or the colonized—or, like me, both—all of our peoples have experienced the loss of something essential to our liberated well-being. Whether that was taken from you or given away in the bargain to win power, it is loss.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
When I was your age the only people I knew were black, and all of them were powerfully, adamantly, dangerously afraid. I had seen this fear all my young life, though I had not always recognized it as such.