Day 8: You and Color Blindness
"White people think it is a compliment when they do not 'see' you as a black person." — Morgan Jerkins, This Will Be My Undoing
Day 9: You and Anti-Blackness against Black Women
"Black women know what it means to love ourselves in a world that hates us." — Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage
Day 10: You and Anti-Blackness against Black Men
"Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying." — Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
Day 11: You and Anti-Blackness against Black Children
"Black people love their hildren with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered." — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Day 12: You and Racist Stereotypes
"We think them Barbarians
Beautiful and scaring them
Earth shakin' rattling
Be wild out loud again"
— Mona Haydar
Day 13: You and Cultural Appropriation
"When you're a member of the privileged group, you don't take kindly to someone telling you that you can't do something."
— Tim Wise, White Like Me
Day 14: Week 2 Review
To see the whole picture, we have to look at each piece in turn and see the entire story being told.
Footnote — The overview blog post for this book is found at this link:
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Someone I invited to discuss this book with us, because she's also reading it, said she wasn't sure she wanted a permanent record. Oh, no, that's not how this works. This is NOT where we put our journaling, but it IS a place where we can encourage one another to keep at this task. As a matter of fact, during this week's instructions the author says that you should "keep what you write to yourself or only share with other people with white privilege" (page 76).
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