Monday, August 3, 2020

Week 4: Power, Relationships, and Commitments

Day 22: You and White Feminism
"If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's imprt to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the very same way." — Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I' No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Day 23: You and White Leaders
"If we don't challenge each other to use our platforms for better than our niches or what our quote-unquote brand is, what are we doing as influencers?  If we can't activate our audiences at the times it's important or needed, then what do we have these platforms for?" — Luvvie Ajayi
Day 24: You and Your Friends
"There is no social-change fairy.  There is only change made by the hands of individuals." — Winona LaDuke
Day 25: You and Your Family
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.  People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." — Nelson Mandela
Day 26: You and Your Values
"Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public." — Cornel West
Day 27: You and Losing Privilege
"Whitness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it." — Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We CAnnot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Day 28: You and Your Commitments
"The relevant question is not whether all Whites are racist but how we can move move White people from a position of active or passive racism to one of active antiracism." — Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Footnote — The overview blog post for this book is found at this link:

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