There have been many, many decades of coherent & moving public arguments and non-violent actions led by BAME groups, yet racism still persists and runs deeply within Western culture & institutions.

It is essential for (especially white) people to understand what racism & white privilege is, how they work, why so many of us are blind to it and to choose to open our eyes.

Educating ourselves and looking within will lead us to actions and choices that support a better world. As always, self-awareness is the seed of change.

If you want to dive into the resources scroll below the purple and get started!

It’s an excellent list created by Sarah Sophie Flicker & Alyssa Klein {brought to my attention by Elena Brower} with resources to use with your children as well. Please share with others.

Or ~ to go a little deeper into the nature of racism, why it is so pervasive and mostly unconscious act…please read this amazing quote from Scott Woods:

The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that.

Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people’s expense, whether whites know/like it or not.

Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doens’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it is still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you.

Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilegde is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on.

So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we are immediately born into. It is like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe.

It is not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It’s a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world.

It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it’s hartd work, but it’s the price you pay for owning everything.
– Scott Woods

Anti-Racism Resources

Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.

To share the google document, here is the link: bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

To take immediate action to fight for Breonna Taylor, please visit FightForBreonna.org.SPECIFIC RESOURCES FOR WHITE PARENTS TO RAISE EQUALITY MINDED, PRIVILIDGE AWARE, ANTI-RACIST CHILDREN:

BOOKS:

Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

PODCASTS:

Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

Fare of the Free Child podcast

ARTICLES:

PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon

{For ADULTS}

ARTICLES:

“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists