How to be an Antiracist by Jennifer McRae https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v Chapters 1-9 en-us 2020-07-29 21:04:15 UTC 2020-08-17 18:26:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Page 106: Winning started to melt away the shame I felt for myself and my race regarding my academic struggles. The Black judge was proud of me. I was more than proud of myself. By my racist insecurity started transforming into racist conceit. dbodenheimer1 https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/672564854 2020-08-07 16:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/672564854 pg 23 asandage1 https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/672810100 We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. To be an anti-racist is a radical choice in the face of this history.]]> 2020-08-07 20:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/672810100 p. 54 To be antiracist is to focus on ending the racism that shapes the mirages, not to ignore the mirages that shape people's lives. https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/672866128 2020-08-07 22:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/672866128 Melissa Roberts https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/672893830 Pg. 19
If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist. 

]]> 2020-08-07 23:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/672893830 https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/673503022 What other people call racial microagressions I call racist abuse.  And I call the zero-tolerance policies preventing an punishing these abusers what they are: antiracist. Only racists shy away from the R - word - racism is steeped in denial.

]]> 2020-08-09 15:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/673503022 One of racism's harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to survive—and, even worse, the Black screwup who faces the abyss after one error, while the White screwup is handed second chances and empathy. cmcisaac1 https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/673786840 2020-08-10 02:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/673786840 Page 9 jmcrae7 https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/674413122 2020-08-10 15:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/674413122 Audrey - Ch. 2, page 28 & Ch. 3, page 42. https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/674665211 Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy. It's a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people...This cause and effect - a racist power creates racist policies out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them --- lingers over the life of racism.]]> 2020-08-10 18:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/674665211 Heather - Pg. 42 https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/674808744 From the Junior Black Americans of Achievement series onward, I had been taught that racist ideas cause racist policies. Theat ignorance and hate cause racist ideas. That the root problem of racism is ignorance and hate. 

But that gets the chain of events exactly wrong. The root problem - from Prince Henry to President Trump - has always been the sef-interest of racist power. Powerful economic, political and cultural self-interest-the primitive accumulation of capital in the case of royal Portugal and subsequent slave traders - has been behind racist policies. Powerful and brilliant intellectuals in the tradition of Gommes de Zurara then produced racist ideas to justify the racist policies of thier era, to redirect the blam for their era's racial inequities away from those policies and onto people. ]]> 2020-08-10 20:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/674808744 https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/683233121 To fight for mental and moral changes AFTER policy is changed means fighting alongside growing benefits and the dissipation of fears, making it possible for antiracist power to succeed. To fight for mental and moral change as a PREREQUISITE for policy change is to fight against growing fears and apathy, making it almost impossible for antiracist power to succeed. .... Knowledge is only power if knowledge is put to the struggle for power. Changing minds isn't activism. An activist produces power and policy change, not mental change. If a person has no record of power or policy change, then that person is not an activist. ]]> 2020-08-17 17:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/683233121 p. 96. Abolitionists - or, rather, progressive assimilationists - conjured what I call the oppression-inferiority thesis. In their well-meaning efforts to persuade Americans about the horrors of oppression, assimilationists argue that oppression has degraded the behaviors of oppressed people. ... But there is a think line between an antiracist saying individual Blacks have suffered trauma and a racist saying Blacks are a traumatized people. There is similarly a thin line between an antiracist saying slavery was debilitating and a racist saying Blacks are a debilitated people. https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/683333935 2020-08-17 17:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/683333935 The Powerless Defense https://padlet.com/jmcrae7/jrc5jsc8gvu1sn9v/wish/683456219 The powerless defense strips Black policymakers and managemnt of all their power.  The powerless defense says that the 154 African American that have served in Congress since 1870 to 2018 have no legislative power.  It says none of the thousands of state and local black politicians have any law making power.

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