A few thoughts on calling in, calling out, white feelings and safe spaces
Reading Time: 3 minutes We can be trauma-informed AND also be extremely clear about what matters most.
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Vox: How to talk to kids about racism, explained by a psychologist
Reading Time: 10 minutes America’s kids are watching.
They’ve seen the killing of George Floyd and other scenes of police violence against black people play across their TV screens again and again, as Kelly Glass reports at Vox. They see the thousands of people in the streets every day protesting that violence — sometimes, the kids are part of the protests.
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For White People Only
Reading Time: 6 minutes Stop that individualized bullshit of “not me.” Do not step away from your collective. You are at the center of all of this. You as an individual and you as a collective. Do not exempt yourself from the hard feelings because you cannot imagine your knee in that man’s neck.
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Obviously, the virus isn’t racist, but the systems we have in place are
Reading Time: < 1 minute Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. ‘Obviously, the virus isn’t racist, but the
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RACE FORWARD’S STATEMENT ON DISPROPORTIONATE COVID-19 CASES AND DEATHS IN BLACK AND LATINX COMMUNITIES: IT’S TIME TO LEAD WITH RACIAL EQUITY
Reading Time: 2 minutes People of color are more likely to be working in “essential” jobs, and therefore are at much greater risk of exposure to COVID-19. Health inequities, seen in preexisting conditions such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, asthma, lack of access to quality health care, and underemployment are all factors that increase COVID-19 complications in patients of color. Coronavirus kills, and structural racism is its accomplice.
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WaPo: Trump’s words, bullied kids, scarred schools
Reading Time: 11 minutes Since Trump’s rise to the nation’s highest office, his inflammatory language — often condemned as racist and xenophobic — has seeped into schools across America. Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as 6 mimicking the president’s insults and the cruel way he delivers them.
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Huffpo: White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading, ADL Says
Reading Time: 3 minutes Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of propaganda material has more than doubled.
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The Root: Botham Jean, Amber Guyger and the Delusion of Forgiveness
Reading Time: 4 minutes “What white people are really asking for when they demand forgiveness from a traumatized community is absolution. They want absolution from the racism that infects us all even though forgiveness cannot reconcile America’s racist sins. They want absolution from their silence in the face of all manner of racism, great and small,” Roxane Gay wrote in the New York Times. “I, for one, am done forgiving.”
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Huffpo: Trump’s Art Of Distraction
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being.
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Vox: The Trump racism spin cycle
Reading Time: 8 minutes Trump is forcing conservatives to confront the real reason their base hates Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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