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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Start reading. Start understanding just what white privilege is, how white supremacy is baked into the cake of America. Listen to black people talk about their experiences without getting defensive. Support black owned businesses and restaurants. Don’t center yourself. I’m tired and listening to the eerie silence (but blessed) in my curfewed neighborhood, so I’ll just say, of all things, Estee Laundry had a great post on this today.

I’m sure our friendly white supremacist posters will helpfully tell me I’m speaking gibberish, and I still consider myself a neophyte about this, but it’s up to us to change things. It’s not up to black people to fix the power structure they didn’t build and still have no comparative power in. If you and I have no influence or power, statistically speaking we still have more than the average black citizen. [/quote]

Yes, get to work.  If you have kids you should really be doing what you can to learn about racism in America--its been part of our country since the beginning and we need to do our part to eradicate it.  Here are some books to help:  White Fragility by DiAngelo, So

If you have kids make sure you buys books about people of color.  If you don't know where to start look up books by Jason Reynolds, Kwame Alexander, Kekla Magoon, Jacqueline Woodson, and Angie Thomas.  My kids (and I) have enjoyed their books.
Books that might help you, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi as well as his book Stamped From The Beginning are both excellent (for kids or you try Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi).  So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo is incredibly helpful.  Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America.  Dyson wrote the foreward to White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo which is excellent and I think a must read for white people.  Another helpful book for white people who are ready to do something constructive is Waking Up White by Debby Irving.

Explore your own implicit or unconscious bias at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/education.html

I would also say seek out Black Media and voices. Twitter makes that easier these days.  Support Black institutions like historically black colleges and universities, black businesses, black writers.  Those are some things you can do to start.  Above all as you do this, be humble, be curious, be willing to challenge yourself and be uncomfortable.  That is where real growth happens.  Thank you for caring.  If you do the work, you will never regret it.[/quote]

Suppose she has already done this.  Suppose she has already read the literature, the studies.  Supposed she owns the implicit bias in herself.  And now she wants to do something active.  Something to make things better.  Besides vote, is there nothing she can do besides sit and feel good that she has educated herself?[/quote]

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