What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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What White People Can Do Next offers guidance on how to move beyond allyship. Speaking out against racism remains critical but to progress and create lasting change, action must be taken beyond just speaking out. TIME magazine described Dabiri's 2021 book " What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition as I would recommend this book as it offers clear points that cause you to question your behaviour and provides you with new ways of thinking without conforming to the terms and advice of online discourse surrounding anti-racism. Her book demands we look for a 'coalition of common goals' and focus on a mass movement that’ll make a just future for all of us. She believes change will only happen if we:

I want to hold programs and politicians, outrageously overpriced secondary education institutions (who have increased costs more than 500% of average inflation in every other industry) accountable rather than simply voting for property, sales and income tax increases to overfund failing programs With decades long histories of failure despite spending that outpaces inflation. Arrange for cultural exchanges and cultural ambassadors in your local school’s classrooms. The International Classroom program at UPenn and People to People International are options. The Dept of Education has a good list. Cultural exchanges via the interwebs are very valuable. Actual human interaction between people from different races, religions, and countries (ie: cultural ambassadors) and students in the physical classroom is ideal.

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Dabiri’s manifesto for radical change…marries historical context with contemporary commentary and analysis in a direct, accessible style.”— Time Support that new apartment building proposed to be built in your neighborhood. Don’t participate in “ snob zoning,” which is opposing new builds of apartments because wealthy white folks are afraid the apartment building will “change the character of a community.” For more information on this, see #47. By examining the attitudes of poorer white people during 16th century US settlement, we find that capitalism was created to uphold the elite. Participate in reparations. One way is through this Facebook group. Remember reparations isn’t just monetary — share your time, skills, knowledge, connections, etc. Thank you to Clyanna Blyanna for suggesting this addition.

In truth, what the year of the pandemic, more so than any other, has taught me is that I have no expectations of any 'racial' group. How could millions of heterogeneous people live up to any one singular expectation of mine?" Our online conversations today are being informed by this neoliberal, deeply competitive and individualistic energy. This is amplified by ‘ platform capitalism’ [the digital economic ecosystems that make money by enabling third parties to profit] through which people build their brands and activist identities. We live in a different historical moment and we should be alert to those tensions, yet we don’t seem to be.” In the book, you describe social media as a “poison chalice” and a space that “gamifies division”. What do you see as the problems with nominally “progressive” online discourses about race? Many of the cherished categories of the intersectional mantra—originally starting with race, class, gender, now including sexuality, nation, religion, age, and disability—are the products of modernist colonial agendas and regimes of epistemic violence, operative through a Western/Euro-American formation through which the notion of discrete identity has emerged.’ As advocated by Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) and other criminal justice proponents, write to the US Sentencing Commission ( [email protected]) and ask them to: Frankly, there’s a huge gap in terms of what comes next. While we need to identify what to do, it’s important not to fixate on an endpoint or a final destination; such thinking is part of the problem. Rather we have to understand our lives as a dynamic flowing of positions. "And finally, recognise this shit is killing you - ‘whiteness’ as a system is destructive for everyone Emma, explain why you say race is ‘a powerful, seductive and enduring myth created to cause division’ and ‘we’re all the products of centuries of conditioning’?

A game-changing skewering of social-media discourse with a historically grounded analysis of anti-racism, collectivism, neoliberalism, and post-colonialism.”— Vogue UK is a thought-provoking look at white allyship and racial coalition that confronts whiteness (supremacy, denial, guilt and saviourism) by telling white people to accept that colonisation, imperialism and racism is at the root of their current privilege.I recently read 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘰 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵 by @emmadabiri and felt inspired to share my main takeaways from this insightful, radical essay. a b Ganatra, Shilpa (27 April 2019). "Emma Dabiri: 'I wouldn't want my children to experience what I did in Ireland' ". Irish Times . Retrieved 29 April 2019.