If you have a close relationship with a young person of color, make sure he/she knows how much you love them. Love and affirm that child. Thank you to Rev Dr Pollard for this contribution.

This is jumping on the bandwagon behind DeAngelo and Kendhi and the other con artists praying on people's good intentions, leveraging tragedies and historical unfairness [too the tune of original sin, martyrdom, self-flagellation, repentance confession, hail maries, and all the trappings of a new inquisitory religion]. It seems to be so easy to complain about “the system” and its “permanent or structural” problems while profiting from those systems. I doubt these authors have forsaken their phones, laptops, cars, clothes, etc. All proceeds from these books should HAVE to be donated to other non-published authors. After all, that’s how collective works right? the few work for the many? Equal in everything (mostly poverty but whatever right?)Not going to lie and say I did more than skim through the book. I stumbled across this in university [the only segment I read through was presented as a paper] hence that was on my reading list. Even my extremely left-leaning liberal professor was less than impressed and ripped the piece to shreds. So we’re forced to define ourselves, "insert race/gender/sexuality/class/disability." and as a consequence we are divided, and each fighting for their groups rights when, in the end we’re all fighting for the same reason: Collective Liberation. Her writing is a delightful mix of educational essay style and colloquialisms peppered throughout as she speaks “normally” (for a person raised in Ireland) with some cursing and a wonderful explanation of yer’wan which I hope was not only in the audiobook but is also present in print. 🤩 History is now. We are living it. If we can’t accept the past and how it affects wealth and opportunity and knowledge production and value systems, we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.” Array is an independent film distribution and resource collective founded by Ava DuVernay. For students of all ages, Array is creating learning companions for the works they produce and distribute, starting with When They See Us.

With its reliance on information rather than knowledge, its fetishizing of privilege without any clear means of transfereal, as well as the ways in which it actively reinforces whiteness, allyship is not only not up to the task, it is in many ways counterproductive.’ a b c d e Haynes, Suyin (22 June 2021). "Why Coalition, Not Allyship, Is the Necessary Next Step in the Racial Justice Movement". Time . Retrieved 11 September 2022. Naming whiteness is necessary; it is the ‘invisibility’ of white people, who are presented just as ‘people’, the default norm from which everyone else deviates.” This was a refreshing and necessary book to read. Refreshing because so much of the discourse on race is driven by the USA’s cultural hegemony – whereas this book is rooted firmly in Ireland and the UK. While it does cover some of the US experience, it isn’t exclusively focussed there.Deftly and wittily deconstructs allyship and white saviour tropes to give an unblinkered takedown of what needs to happen next.”— Stylist (UK) Her book demands we look for a 'coalition of common goals' and focus on a mass movement that’ll make a just future for all of us. She believes change will only happen if we: Indeed the sense of superiority encoded into whiteness remains a very effective ruse to distract ‘white people’ from the oppression many of them experience keenly: the pressure of financial precariousness... zero hours contract, the unaffordability of a home, erosion of healthcare and education; as a white person your ‘race’ isn’t one of the impediments to you achieving the good life; the game is still rigged.” What this has shifted in my thinking as well, is seeing racism as a thing that is working. Not just as domination of one group of people over another group of people or as a contemporary structural issue. But as a historical project designed to conquer and divide people against their best interests.

The author proposes coalition over allyship as a way to achieve this, defining the latter as an individualistic process that would only separate us more. Instead "coalition is about mutuality. It reframes the task as identifying common ground—while attending to the specificities of racism—that all can strive for and that all will benefit from." It’s solidarity as opposed to charity. She bases this, on coalition building that have work in the past. This was an intelligent, thought-provoking and educating essay. It looks at what white people need to actually do to create change in relation to racial justice. Stand outside of the stores from #17 with a sign that reads “[Company] uses prison labor” even if for 30 mins a few times a month. It is crucial to connect the dots between the origins of global capitalism and colonialism, and the invention of race.”Arrange for cultural exchanges and cultural ambassadors in your local school’s classrooms. The International Classroom program at UPenn and People to People International are options. The Dept of Education has a good list. Cultural exchanges via the interwebs are very valuable. Actual human interaction between people from different races, religions, and countries (ie: cultural ambassadors) and students in the physical classroom is ideal.

White people may find the interrogation of their own race an alien concept but the fact that most have lived their whole life without considering racial identity is a unique advantage, allocated solely to the default. Whiteness is the un-othered. It’s important for that to be investigated by everyone.I wrote something similar a while ago. As the book makes clear, we have to realise that racism hurts all of us. It isn’t just about those who it targets – it is a poison which corrupts everything. Write to your college/university about implementing all or some of these diversity strategies that effectively promote racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity on campus. Write to the public universities your tax payer dollars support about implementing these diversity strategies. After an onslaught of widespread uncertainty and brutal instability, we all need a guiding map to help us move forward together. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition, Emma Dabiri’s second book, pioneers urgent new roads to social change and new forms of dialogue. Yes. I rate this. I’m just gonna write a mini-essay here lol if u want to read it but in short I thought this was good. I think the genre of instructing white people on how to act and behave when it comes to racism is short-sighted and needs to go and hopefully this book can start this conversation.