Can we solve a problem with the same energy that created it?
I don't think we end hate by meeting it with hate.
I think love is required. We must love ourselves and one another.
Self-love because we white people are not used to seeing ourselves in a negative light around issues of race and equity. If we say things and get it wrong or are afraid to say things and get it wrong - we need self-love to cope with the difficult emotions that are going to arise.
Standing up for the right is a thankless job fraught with opportunities for hard learning.
In order to keep moving forward, I have to have enough love to take responsibility, to repair (internally or externally), to have compassion (for myself or others) that I will not proceed.
To heal, we need love.
Reading Resources
Ta-Nehisi Coatesâ article, The Case for Reparations
Van Jonesâ article, âBlack People âLootâ Food..White People âFindâ Foodâ
Books
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Caught, Marie Gottschalk
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad
Uprooting Racism, How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul Kivel
Shelly Tochluk, Witnessing Whiteness
Race and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race, Derald Wing Sue
So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo
Where to give money or time:
NAACP
Southern Poverty Law Center
Dream Defenders
Black Youth Project 100
National Bail Fund
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