2020 has been a year of ________! You can fill in the blank. However you fill in that blank, the reality of structural and systemic racism in our country has been woven clearly throughout. It can’t be denied. In the midst of it all Roots of Justice has shown up and pivoted by…
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The Roots of Justice White male trainers and friend, Tobin Miller Shearer, had conversation about the intersections of privilege. Watch it here or over at Facebook. One viewer, a woman of color, didn’t think she would watch because “no one wants to hear a bunch of clueless, arrogant white men talk about race.” But she did watch, and she had never heard white men show up that way, especially in talks about race: “What made the talk special was that the white men displayed vulnerability, sensitivity, and honesty.”
Click "Read More" to view the recorded conversation on YouTube. Click "Read More" to watch the recording of this live-streamed conversation on hot topics impacting Black women.
Hi friends in the struggle, We’re living at a critical time in U.S. history. Besides a public health pandemic, we’re in the middle of a racial uprising that’s been fomenting for years. Civil dialogue, anti-racism workshops, educating, kneeling in protest at football games, all good work but still a lot of systemic refusal to see or admit there’s a problem, or to make substantive change … and now the powderkeg has exploded. This is about more than the murder of George Floyd, this moment is about the mattering of black lives. Black Lives Matter and we demand justice and full inclusion.
Following up from our panel discussion on Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19, we want to offer this resource list.
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