Anti-Racism
Vox article
The weeks after George Floyd’s murder filled with peaceful protests and white folks recognizing their privilege and position in a racist society, starting to do the work, I thought it important to emphasize that it is white people’s job to educate themselves. It’s easy for white people to fain ignorance (which shows their privilege and separation from oppression) and in the sometimes performative stance to be an ally they reach out to black folks to help them, direct them, guide them into what the next step is. It’s not black folks’ job to do that. Me and other white folks need to do the work and take down the racist system that was built by white people and which I and other white people benefit from. The following quote speaks to this.
Quote from Vox article:
“It’s not the job of people of color to educate white people about racism or anti-racism. ‘I’m the victim of racism, and now you want me to try to solve the problem,’ Simmons says she recently told colleagues. ‘The problem does not lie within me, it lies within the system that you benefit from.’”
I posted some anti-racist resources for white people in a previous post, found here.
“The opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not racist’. It is ‘antiracist.”