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I can often get frozen by over-carefulness, fear of doing it wrong, saying it incorrectly or sounding like I'm not up to date on the latest discourse. I often wait for others to act or speak so that I have a sense of the "right way" to respond to issues of race that aren't straigthforward. What I'm learning is that as white people, we need to be able to actively engage in the work and be the first to take action. We need to be okay with failing, with being in perfect, with facing critique
and criticism.

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I think a lot of our role is unlearning. Also understanding that we are not just individuals but part of such a larger collective. Also also finding a balance of when to listen and when to speak out.

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A sense of compassion and an understanding of something larger than our individual self.

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to continue to listen

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Integrating anti-racist behavior into everyday interactions and life

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to have the uncomfortable conversations with those we love, patiently and consistently, without hope for immediate change.

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To engage in conversations with other white folks and challenge the communities that we are in to keep growing and learning.

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To take the burden off of people of color and to take responsibility for our role and to understand that a lot of the racism we are dealing with is bigger than us...a systemic problem.

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To take risks- emotional, social, financial

To learn about other ways of being

To fill in the gaps of our cultural education

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To hold ourselves accountable for our own white privilege while connecting with other white folks to dismantle these beliefs and practices.

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More and more I feel like the role of white people is self examination and heightening our own ways we unconsciously see and respond to the world around us. Lots of awareness and reflection.

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To engage other white people in the work, to work throughout out lifetimes to dismantle institutional racism, to continuously self-reflect.

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Tim: I am beginning to get a clearer picture that everyone who is engaging in this work is approaching it from where they are at individually. This is usually centered around that persons own racial history.

Mariia: Fully understanding and grapiling with our (white people) history and how we have orcastrated our reality as we know it now. we need to fully accept our history and how we continue to engage in supremacy to this day on a daily basis. then work on dismantling that. And standing aside knowing that this is not a whit lead situation.

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Holding ourselves and other white ppl accountable in recognizing white supremacy. Recognize how racism and white supremacy does not serve anyone.

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To use privilege to speak up and out, challenge WSC and take some of the weight off of POC to challenge racism in spaces, while being cognizant of taking over airtime. Bringing up and challenge WSC when you are in exclusively white spaces. Continued reflection and action of your own WS thoughts, beliefs, and actions.

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As white people we need to recognize that we benefit from white privilege whether or not we want or intend to. We must realize that we can decide how to use that privilege and we can use it in our antiracist work.