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What does it look like and mean to work collectively? What does working collectively mean?

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What does it look like and mean to work collectively? What does working collectively mean?

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Envision and then build abundance of connection, accountability and love between white people to support each other in facing the shit

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Building alliances to support radical white identity

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Building alliances to support radical white identity

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How are we inviting others in and supporting each other in learning and acting?

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This work can feel very isolating when other white people are not receptive, or worse, dismissive. How can we learn to support our other white colleagues to combat this feeling of loneliness as we engage in deeper learning, how can we be allies for one another?

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https://www.awarela.org/s/01-AWARE-LA-Why-a-White-Space.pdf

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We are coming to understand that change needs to occur at an individual level as well as a structural level. They both affect and reinforce each other in order for us to create the type of world we want to live in.

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Strategic power/policy targets in the organization that dismantle white supremacy

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Strategic power/policy targets in the organization that dismantle white supremacy

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We white folx are too scared/too protective of the peace

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We white folx are too scared/too protective of the peace

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Thinking a lot about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Civil Rights movement and how MLK Jr said that the "negro's" great stumbling block is the White American moderate. I've been reading about white antiracist spiritual leaders who were very active during the civil rights movement and also "reactionary centrists" and it is just making me really angry about the widespread (esp. White) idea that centrism and "creating space for all perspectives" is a virtue. During the civil rights movement, radical politics were relatively common and necessary. When did radical politics become so scary to white folx? Why would I want to create space for any perspective that just serves to uphold the oppressive systems we are living in? The nonprofit industrial complex relies on the centrism of complacent white folx who want to "help" without taking any real risks that would actually create change.

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The original piece and therefore this website builds on the work of many people, including (but not limited to) Andrea Ayvazian, Bree Carlson, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Eli Dueker, Nancy Emond, Kenneth Jones, Jonn Lunsford, Joan Olsson, David Rogers, James Williams, Sally Yee, as well as the work of Grassroots Leadership, Equity Institute Inc, the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Challenging White Supremacy workshop, the Lillie Allen Institute, the Western States Center, and the contributions of hundreds of participants in the DR process. As noted elsewhere, any wisdom you find here is credit to all those who informed and influenced

Sharon Martinas, who at the time was facilitating the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop, suggested I add the antidotes. The characteristics marked with an asterisk* indicate those that Daniel Buford, who at the time was a lead trainer with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, ​asked I credit to him when the original article was written.

​the original article and this website. Any fault or shortcoming is mine.

The original article offered this Partial Bibliography:
Notes from People's Institute for Survival and Beyond Workshop, Oakland, CA, spring 1999. Notes from Challenging White Supremacy Workshop, San Francisco, CA, spring 1999. Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? NY: HarperCollins, 1997. Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words. NY: Context Books, 2000. Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism. PA: New Society Publishers, 1996. Anne Wilson Schaef, Living in Process. NY: Ballantine, 1998. For complete bibliography, see complete workbook for dRwork's Dismantling Racism process (2016).

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Sometime in the late 1990s, I arrived home after a particularly frustrating consultation with an organization I was working with at the time. In a flurry of exasperation, I sat down at my computer...

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The Nazis in Germany modeled their laws and systems after the United States' construction and systematizing of race. I just learned this from reading (listening to) Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabella Wilkerson

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Coping mechanisms and how they can reinforce racism, from AWARE-LA

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ORIGIN - Official Trailer - In Theaters January 19

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I've been thinking about this alot lately, and this documentary was super helpful!

The Cost of Inheritance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUCFF8e0yYs)

Summary:

THE COST OF INHERITANCE is a documentary that explores the complex issue of reparations in the United States using a thoughtful approach to history, historical injustices, systemic inequities, and the critical dialogue on racial conciliation. Through personal narratives, community inquiries, and scholarly insights, it aims to inspire understanding of the scope and rationale of the reparations debate.

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Contradictions for white people working in racial justice

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Contradictions for white people working in racial justice

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source: https://reneeroederer.com/2020/06/18/contradictions-for-white-people-in-racial-justice-work/

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Today, I'd like to share an image from the Instagram account @malefragility. It's entitled, "Contradictions for White People in Racial Justice Work." On Instagram, the caption to the image says, "If you're leaning too far in one direction, try the other one."

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- white people are a particular liability in racial justice movements
- white people have specific and critical roles in racial justice movements

- it can feel humiliating to have not participated meaningfully in racial justice work before now and suddenly want to join
- in order to grow stronger and win, the movement requires new people to join

- when you're working on ending an oppression that you benefit from, people will rightly mistrust you and be hard on you
- when you're working on ending racism, it's good to be nice to yourself and patient with yourself

- white activists need to listen to, defer to, and take leadership from POC
- because "POC" is not a monolithic identity that all believes one thing, white activists need to cultivate their own analysis and judgment over time

- one specific role for white people is being tough about holding one another accountable
- another key role for white people is extending compassion, care, and patience to other white people

- racial justice work involves people giving up or giving away their power
- another part of racial justice work is white people strategically using their power rather than hiding it, denying it, or pretending it doesn't exist

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Contradictions for White People in Racial Justice Work

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Today, I'd like to share an image from the Instagram account @malefragility. It's entitled, "Contradictions for White People in Racial Justice Work." On Instagram, the caption to the image says, "If you're leaning too far in one direction, try the other one." I will type out the text below: -- white people are a particular...

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A book that talks about the way that Racism hurts everyone, including White people and how addressing it will also benefit us all:

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The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee: 9780525509585 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that…