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From Description to Prescription to Action

Updated: May 31, 2020



What

This space is for people to post anti-racist activism to 1) Learn how and/or borrow 'scripts' to interrupt racism and dismantle white supremacy. 2) Practice a similar imagined scenario. 3) Feel emboldened to act within a larger anti-racist community.


Why

Black and Brown bodies are sacrificed because that's the final moment of all the smaller, uninterrupted moments that came before. There are anti-racist actions white people can take before situations become catastrophic. These moments have power. Our silence and inaction are our complicity.


How


OK. I'll start...Here is a conversation I recently had.


When the white termite inspector recently said to me with anger and annoyance:

Termite inspector: Did you see that? A Black lady was just riding my tail as I was trying to pull over to your house.

LB: It is not an important part of your story that the woman is Black. It is not necessary for you to identify the driver as Black. That has nothing to do with what happened.

TI: Well, ok, but she was right up on my tail as I was trying to pull over and it was scary.

LB: It is not necessary to note that she is Black. This is not what made it dangerous for you. It is not OK for you to make that part of your story to me.

TI offered no response. But he found that he has no home here for his racism.


Please post your experience so that we can continue to expand our anti-racist community.





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Linda Belans
Linda Belans
May 31, 2020

A white supremacist infiltrated a rally for the removal of a confederate statue at the downtown Durham court house. He mounted an improvised stage next to one of the rally organizers -- a person of color -- who was speaking, and began shouting at us. We calmly and silently moved toward him, an action that caused him to jump down. In silence, we peacefully kept advancing, led by a white City Council member, edging the man toward the court house basement door. The perpetrator escaped into the courthouse, followed by a smaller group of anti-racists, who escorted him out of the building and off the grounds. His white supremacist group, waiting nearby, left with him and never returned.

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miller.rachelc
May 30, 2020

The importance of talking and listening:


A few days ago I was talking (face-to-face) with a friend. White male, early forties, military, identifies as "socially liberal, fiscally conservative."


We start talking about social media and politics. He's like blah blah blah I don't post political vomit on the internet. I'm like blah blah I don't post to change minds (I'm grateful for my echo chamber, it gives me hope), I post so that people know who I am and what I believe.


This leads to a conversation regarding the recent murder of George Floyd. He mentions that he was tired of people saying if you don't voice your disgust about what happened, you are part of the problem. "Don't be…


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