Me and White Supremacy
by Layla Saad · first published 2020
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"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of co
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…talking about how the system operates as a whole. As I've commented elsewhere, people need to educate themselves about systemic racism in this country. "So You Want to Talk about Race" by Ijeoma Oluo or "Me and White Supremacy" by Layla Saad are good places to start.
on “CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]” ↗…into a pattern of systematic, nationwide discrimination which is irrefutable and that disproportionately affects people of color. Recommend you read "So You Want to Talk about Race" by Ijeoma Oluo or "Me and White Supremacy" by Layla Saad to learn more about racism as actual experts on the subject understand it. (Edit: typo)
on “CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]” ↗…(you need to train your researches on project costing / job codes for payroll, procurement processes with federal funds etc) and ideally get them the NIH training (see below for a reading list). me and white supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla F. Saad The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander United States and Racism Systemic:…
on “Some of the forces blocking new ideas in science” ↗