This is really good and really necessary for a white person to read. Id like to thank the Indy Feminists who shared this so that it popped up in my feed multiple times this morning. Our American mainstream culture is racist. To not be racist in this country is to swim upstream, even internalized racism is a problem for non-white people. I am nowhere near close to good enough on this issue, I say and do dumb things all the time. *hangs head* Ive even Not all white girls!-ed on occasion before I realized with horror that I had just done that. Some things this article didnt mention that I think have helped me personally: *watching movies like Sounder, either version of Imitation of Life (although eeeesh does both films have some racist baggage), nearly any Sidney Poitier movie, and many more that arent immediately coming to mind. Pretty much any movie that was written by a person of color and has a non-white point-of-view. *doing reports in school on great Black Americans or reading biographies just for fun. MLK jr, Frederick Douglass (my hero), Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, Sidney Poitier, Josephine Baker, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Madame CJ Walker *documentaries like White Like Me, the African-Americans on PBS *the summer I spent binge-watching episodes of American Justice when I was 20- the terrifying real-life psycho killer was a white guy 99% of the time. Other things that help could be shared below. :) https://beingshadoan.wordpress/2014/08/15/i-am-racist-and-so-are-you/
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:26:45 +0000
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