I know resources like this are often not directed towards poor white people (especially significantly disabled people, who are excluded from most of the advice here by default), but things like this are what we need more discussions of, not hearing the five millionth excuse for poor white people denying their white privilege and being racists.
And I know I often have complicated feelings about my own identity and racial ancestry but I could use resources like that too, because socially I am benefiting from systemic racism against others, including those of my own family who didn’t move towards white assimilation as much (this shit can be complicated for people with mixed ancestry).
But there’s so little of that discussion, particularly if you’re like me and you’re too disabled to do most standard “activist” stuff. I know articles like this one exist, but they are few and far between.
We do need to be discussing what we can do to work towards real and substantial racial justice, reparations, reconciliation, decolonizing, etc. instead of trying to excuse ourselves and others for our roles in this system. And I know I’m not perfect on this front myself and that we have a long way to go in trying to build this, and I often don’t know what my role could be based on where I am now, but if we never even start trying we’ll never get anywhere better.
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this is wonderful.
it’s something i’ve wanted for the longest time. i’ve been afraid to even ask, “is there anything a white person can do to help, though” because just phrasing the question sounds entitled. but the fact is, there’s a huge resource of people who want to help in the fight against racism, not out of ‘white guilt’ but because human beings are basically cooperative by nature. i’ve wanted to say, “use us! give us a to-do list!” because all i ever saw was don’ts, and some of them conflicting – like whether or not to go to BLM protests, for instance. i saw people being scathing about the women’s march on washington because “oh yeah white people will turn out in pink hats but where are they when cops shoot kids” and i’ve seen people being scathing about whites showing up to BLM marches “like they expect a cookie.” that doesn’t exactly give a person confidence as to what action would be helpful, you know?
i’m not assuming this site is definitive or that everyone agrees about the actions listed. but it’s early days yet. what makes it a !!! moment for me is just that actions are being listed at all.
yes, i will do as many of these things as i can do. thank you. i’m in.
www.WhiteAccomplices.org
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just moving along like everyone else 