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The Crown Act refers to laws that support a respectful workplace for natural hair.
https://www.thecrownact.com/

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The C.R.O.W.N. Act stands for "Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair," and was created in 2019 to ensure protection against discrimination based on race-based hairstyles by extending statutory protection to hair texture and protective styles such as braids, locs, twists, and knots in

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Not being afraid to have the conversation. Meaningful change will make you feel uncomfortable.

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Within families, skin color tone prejudice can be seen. Siblings think preferential treatment exists.

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Unable to comprehend events that are happening. They need your guidance and provide how they see the world. This opens the door for conversation.

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I often choose a Black professional because I know they have had to work twice as hard and learn twice as much just to maintain their place.

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Sometimes, Black defendants prefer White or Jewish attorneys. Often this is because they are swayed by the suits and outside appearance.

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In media and literature, we associate Blackness with bad or evil. And we associate Whiteness with goodness. Why?

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Why are we obsessed with altering our appearance?

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Parents are the advisors and what type of tomorrow to build and also to listen to what the children are sharing on what they are seeing.

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Actively listening to one another.

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Demands much dialog within yourself.  Then you are able to share your point of view.  Feel free to remove yourself from situations you feel uncomfortable in.

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Being an antiracist means that you have to do the internal work and think about your views and beliefs before you can move forward.

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Sometimes we want to be an ally but we fear being seen negatively as a Savior.

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We like to say that we aren't racist, but that's not enough. The question is: Are you an antiracist? Are you actively trying to call out or eliminate racism?

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We are often fond of blaming the victim for his circumstances. We saw that in Chapter 9, too. Black people are poor because of their choices instead of because of structural racism, for example. We have to reframe our thoughts.

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Placing blame on the actions of individuals.  Not on society.

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Recognize the lenses we are viewing thru.

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Scarcity Mentality vs Abundance Mentality

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Scarcity Mentality vs Abundance Mentality

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Provide education and outreach opportunities. However, they also have to walk the walk and talk the talk.

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Challenges have no color. It is us who attached COLOR to our challenges.

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Be open and listen, sometimes individuals are in need of an ear.  They need a safe place to feel comfortable.

Society needs to be accepting of PEOPLE in general with no assignments.

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Is MATC at that point yet.  We need to provide and expand the knowledge base to the campuses.  There is much work that needs to be done in every levels of our MATC  community.

COVID has now left some students without a safe space, MATC was their safe space. Unfortunately, students need to be more adaptable than others and some cannot.

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We need to expand. MATC needs more education/open discussion to help develop everyone's knowledge base.

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Still feels very offended with Family restrooms.  Still needs the respect from other to acknowledge their pronouns that are requested.

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Providing knowledge to those who feel they know, but are provided with incorrect data/sources. Provide better understanding to friends.

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Seemed to be the smallest chapter in the book and it would have been a great opportunity to expand this more. There are so many facets to this chapter. You have to be comfortable in order to discuss this.

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“Gender racism impacts white women and male groups of color, whether they see it or not.” 

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“Gender racism impacts white women and male groups of color, whether they see it or not.” 

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Power of categorizing puts you in a box and you can internalize it and you start to believe it.

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Women overall are paid less than men. Black and brown women are paid even less.

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Women's History Month event: Tuesday, March 23 from 11 to 12 MATC and 128th Air Base will be hosting an interview with Colonel Adria Zuccaro the first female commander of the 128th Air Refueling Wing.  The event will be moderated by our own Valencia Brown, retired military and feature a presentation by our own Selena Webb-Ebo on the impact of Rosie Riveter and her "Motivate to Serve"  The ZOOM meeting is free and open to the public.  Watch for more information.

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For those who would like the information for the Gay Straight Alliance at MATC to pass along to students, here is the page on Campus Labs: https://matc.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/gsa

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Also, on Wednesday, April 14 from 2:30 to 4:00 there will be live ZOOM performance called the Intrusion Show.  Watch for more information.

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Question 1: Perspective - Racists and Racism

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Question 1: Perspective - Racists and Racism

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Kendi says that “asking antiracists to change their perspective on racism can be as destabilizing as asking racists to change their perspective on the races. Antiracists can be as doctrinaire in their view of racism as racists can be in their view of not-racism. How can antiracists ask racists to open their minds and change when we are closed-minded and unwilling to change?” . . . Your thoughts?

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Kendi draws a distinction between feelings advocacy and outcome advocacy: “We arrive at demonstrations excited, as if our favorite musician is playing on the speakers’ stage. We convince ourselves we are doing something to solve the racial problem when we are really doing something to satisfy our feelings. We go home fulfilled, like we dined at our favorite restaurant. And this fulfillment is fleeting, like a drug high. The problems of inequity and injustice persist. They persistently make us feel bad and guilty. We persistently do something to make ourselves feel better as we convince ourselves we are making society better, as we never make society better.”

1. What were your reactions to this passage?

2. Do you think there would be a difference in how we focus our human and fiscal resources on changing power and policy in hopes to make society better instead of making ourselves feel better?

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What steps have you taken to be anti-racist? What have been some of your successes? … any failures? Where do you still struggle? What steps will you take to be anti-racist?

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On page 234, Kendi writes, “Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with bigotry of all kinds, justifying all kinds of inequities by victim blaming; heightening exploitation and misplaced hate; spurring mass shootings, arms races, and demagogues who polarize nations; shutting down essential organs of democracy; and threatening the life of human society with nuclear war and climate change.”

What do you think about this analogy between fighting metastatic racism and metastatic cancer?

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On page 238, Kendi notes, “There is nothing I see in our world today, in our history, giving me hope that one day antiracists will win the fight, that one day the flag of antiracism will fly over a world of equity. What gives me hope is a simple truism. Once we lose hope, we are guaranteed to lose.”

To be antiracist is to be hopeful. We must all find hope. How do you think you can find hope?

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On page 221, Kendi says: “The construct of covert institutional racism opens American ideas to racism and, ironically, closes them, too. Separating the overt individual from the covert institutional veils the specific policy choices that cause racial inequities, policies made by specific people. Covering up the specific policies and policymakers prevents us from identifying and replacing the specific policies and policymakers. We become unconscious to racist policymakers and policies as we lash out angrily at the abstract bogeyman of ‘the system.’” Do you agree or disagree? Say more about that. Can you cite some real life examples where we might focus on the policymakers and policies rather than the bogeyman/system?

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What are your thoughts on postracialism?

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Question 4 How has the book challenged your conceptions of racism?

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Question 4 How has the book challenged your conceptions of racism?

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The book simply cannot be over! I have enjoyed these conversations so much. This has changed how I see myself and how I see others. Thank you! And just in case, I will log on next Friday in hope of a discussion.

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This book and this experience was so amazing. Can we do it again?

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Thank you all guys, it's been great ggoing through this book. I enjoyed it so much.

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I attended every book discussion. I had a medical appointment today, and I still rushed to log in so I could participate. For me, this has been a place where i have learned and grown. Thank you!

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I think the barometer is whether you are doing things differently or what has changed.

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What is something that resonated for you in this chapter?

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What is something that resonated for you in this chapter?