Anti-Racism 4REALS by Sheila M. Beckford

Author:Sheila M. Beckford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: anti-racism;racism;racial justice;racial equality;social justice;civil rights;activism;disrupting racism;anti-racism for white people
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 2021-10-19T03:57:18+00:00

I recall having a loud disagreement with a man outside. An older Black woman approached me without knowing the events leading up to the argument and said, “A lady doesn’t carry herself that way; Black women must be quiet but strong. That’s how we survived [slavery].” After returning home and sharing these events with my mother, she said, “Served him right! A lady knows how to be ready to defend herself.” With that one statement, my mother shut some doors inside of me and opened another. From that day forward, hearing those words and the message of liberation that they instilled in me, I vowed to be my own definition of a lady and no one else’s. That moment formed me and breathed into me a new understanding of the responsibility of resisting “respectability politics” and defying the effects of white supremacy no matter from whom they come.

We are trained to be

what whiteness determines us to be.

We are conditioned to accept leaders

who will conform to whiteness.

Anti-racist REAL STRATEGIES

demand the opposite.

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