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What is Shivyon Erech Ha'adam and how should it affect us as jews responding to the crisis too

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What is Shivyon Erech Ha'adam and how should it affect us as jews responding to the crisis too

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All human beings are born equal in value. The value of every human being is infinite and therefore immeasurable. Every human
being has the right to a holistic human life
where they have the opportunity to express their opinion.

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https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow/videos/2786222218327714/

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On the killing of George Floyd, the Minneapolis protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper:

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On the killing of George Floyd, the Minneapolis protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper:

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“If you felt unease watching that Target being looted, try to imagine how it must feel for black Americans when they watch themselves being looted every single day. Police in America are looting black bodies.”
https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow/videos/271504123969416/

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All of us at Ben & Jerry's are outraged about the murder of another Black person by Minneapolis police officers last week and the continued violent response by police against protestors. We have to speak out. We have to stand together with the victims of murder, marginalization, and repression because of their skin color, and with those who seek justice through protests across our country. We have to say his name: George Floyd.

George Floyd was a son, a brother, a father, and a friend. The police officer who put his knee on George Floyd's neck and the police officers who stood by and watched didn't just murder George Floyd, they stole him. They stole him from his family and his friends, his church and his community, and from his own future.

The murder of George Floyd was the result of inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy. What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated Black bodies as the enemy from the beginning. What happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis is the fruit borne of toxic seeds planted on the shores of our country in Jamestown in 1619, when the first enslaved men and women arrived on this continent. Floyd is the latest in a long list of names that stretches back to that time and that shore. Some of those names we know - Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Emmett Till, Martin Luther King, Jr. - most we don't.

The officers who murdered George Floyd, who stole him from those who loved him, must be brought to justice. At the same time, we must embark on the more complicated work of delivering justice for all the victims of state sponsored violence and racism.

Four years ago, we publicly stated our support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Today, we want to be even more clear about the urgent need to take concrete steps to dismantle white supremacy in all its forms. To do that, we are calling for four things:

First, we call upon President Trump, elected officials, and political parties to commit our nation to a formal process of healing and reconciliation. Instead of calling for the use of aggressive tactics on protestors, the President must take the first step by disavowing white supremacists and nationalist groups that overtly support him, and by not using his Twitter feed to promote and normalize their ideas and agendas. The world is watching America's response.

Second, we call upon the Congress to pass H.R. 40, legislation that would create a commission to study the effects of slavery and discrimination from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies. We cannot move forward together as a nation until we begin to grapple with the sins of our past. Slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation were systems of legalized and monetized white supremacy for which generations of Black and Brown people paid an immeasurable price. That cost must be acknowledged and the privilege that accrued to some at the expense of others must be reckoned with and redressed.

Third, we support Floyd's family's call to create a national task force that would draft bipartisan legislation aimed at ending racial violence and increasing police accountability. We can't continue to fund a criminal justice system that perpetuates mass incarceration while at the same time threatens the lives of a whole segment of the population.

And finally, we call on the Department of Justice to reinvigorate its Civil Rights Division as a staunch defender of the rights of Black and Brown people. The DOJ must also reinstate policies rolled back under the Trump Administration, such as consent decrees to curb police abuses.

Unless and until white America is willing to collectively acknowledge its privilege, take responsibility for its past and the impact it has on the present, and commit to creating a future steeped in justice, the list of names that George Floyd has been added to will never end. We have to use this moment to accelerate our nation's long journey towards justice and a more perfect union.

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Silence Is NOT An Option | Ben & Jerry's

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Ben & Jerry's has a long history of being a values-led company. Explore some of their greatest ice cream moments.

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https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/2745589452330472/

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Unpacking the invisible Knapsack - Peggy Mcintosh

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Unpacking the invisible Knapsack - Peggy Mcintosh

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Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of while privilege that was similarly denied and protected. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. As we in women's studies work to reveal male privilege and ask men to give up some of their power, so one who writes about having white privilege must ask, "having described it, what will I do to lessen or end it?"

For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.

In unpacking this invisible knapsack of white privilege, I have listed conditions of daily experience that I once took for granted. Nor did I think of any of these perquisites as bad for the holder. I now think that we need a more finely differentiated taxonomy of privilege, for some of these varieties are only what one would want for everyone in a just society, and others give license to be ignorant, oblivious, arrogant, and destructive.

I see a pattern running through the matrix of white privilege, a pattern of assumptions that were passed on to me as a white person. There was one main piece of cultural turf; it was my own turn, and I was among those who could control the turf. My skin color was an asset for any move I was educated to want to make. I could think of myself as belonging in major ways and of making social systems work for me. I could freely disparage, fear, neglect, or be oblivious to anything outside of the dominant cultural forms. Being of the main culture, I could also criticize it fairly freely.

In proportion as my racial group was being made confident, comfortable, and oblivious, other groups were likely being made unconfident, uncomfortable, and alienated. Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color.

For this reason, the word "privilege" now seems to me misleading. We usually think of privilege as being a favored state, whether earned or conferred by birth or luck. Yet some of the conditions I have described here work systematically to over empower certain groups. Such privilege simply confers dominance because of one's race or sex.

We might at least start by distinguishing between positive advantages, which we can work to spread, and negative types of advantage, which unless rejected will always reinforce our present hierarchies. For example, the feeling that one belongs within the human circle, as Native Americans say, should not be seen as privilege for a few. Ideally it is an unearned entitlement. At present, since only a few have it, it is an unearned advantage for them.

Disapproving of the system won't be enough to change them. I was taught to think that racism could end if white individuals changed their attitude. But a "white" skin in the United States opens many doors for whites whether or not we approve of the way dominance has been conferred on us. Individual acts can palliate but cannot end these problems.

Although systemic change takes many decades, there are pressing questions for me and, I imagine, for some others like me if we raise our daily consciousness on the perquisites of being light-skinned. What will we do with such knowledge? As we know from watching men, it is an open question whether we will choose to use unearned advantage, and whether we will use any of our arbitrarily awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems on a broader base.

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THE DANGERS OF THE "I DON'T SEE COLOUR"  MENTALITY:

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THE DANGERS OF THE "I DON'T SEE COLOUR"  MENTALITY:

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* YOU CAN'T FIX SOMETHING YOU CAN'T SEE

* IT ALLOWS YOU TO IGNORE THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACIAL ISSUES

* YOU'RE NOT ACTIVELY DISMANTLING YOUR OWN PREJUDICES  ( we all have them)

* IT MINIMISES THE STRUGGLES OF PEOPLE OF COLOUR IN TODAYS SOCIETY

* IT LIMITS YOUR ABILITY TO APPRECIATE INDIVIDUALISM

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Have you noticed White privilege in your own life?

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Have you noticed White privilege in your own life?

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WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY WHITE PRIVILEGE ?

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WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY WHITE PRIVILEGE ?

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1) TEACH OTHER WHITE FOLKS THE BARRIERS TO SUCCESS FOR PEOPLE OF COLOUR
2) PROMISE TO LISTEN AND AMPLIFY THE VOICES OF PEOPLE OF COLOUR
3) BE MORE THAN " NOT RACIST " BUT ACTIVELY ANTI-RACIST
4) CONFRONT RACIAL INJUSTICES EVEN WHEN ITS UNCOMFORTABLE

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What is Tikkun Olam? How might Tikkun Olam affect how Jews respond to White Privilege?

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What is Tikkun Olam? How might Tikkun Olam affect how Jews respond to White Privilege?

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Tikkun olam is a concept in Judaism, interpreted in Orthodox Judaism as the prospect of overcoming all forms of idolatry, and by other Jewish denominations as an aspiration to behave and act constructively and beneficially

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What does the term White Privilege mean?

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What does the term White Privilege mean?

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This week has seen worldwide protests and outrage after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in Minneapolis.

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This week has seen worldwide protests and outrage after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in Minneapolis.

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As Lesley Thornton, founder of Klur Skincare, wrote on Instagram: “A post is not enough. Do the research. Do the work. Do better. Talk to your friends, families, and coworkers about race even if it’s uncomfortable, hold space for your black and brown friends, take accountability for your actions, and do the work [...]

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32 Pictures That Show What White Privilege Looks Like

https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/white-privilege-black-lives-matter-protest

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Daily effects of white privilege - Peggy Mcintosh

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Daily effects of white privilege - Peggy Mcintosh

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As far as I can tell, my African American coworkers, friends, and acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact in this particular time, place and time of work cannot count on most of these conditions.
https://projecthumanities.asu.edu/content/white-privilege-checklist

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In a virtual world, how can we support the BLM movement?

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In a virtual world, how can we support the BLM movement?

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Spoken word by Jenifer Lewis
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAu-MGbDkvn/?igshid=1c7as0sgq6b2u

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https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#educate