When Black People are in Pain...
White People Just Join Book Clubs
Learning How to Move Beyond the “Book Club”
In respect for Dr. Crutcher:
Nobody will listen to me and stay the same.
Maybe you will get angry, or offended,
or even humiliated, but at least you will not stay the same.
And in the end despair is not a plan of action.
It’s a Sisyphean task to create any kind of hope.
And that’s what keeps me going.
I tell the story over and over again.
Colum McCann, Apeirogon, p226
A novel about the Arab / Israeli Conflict
"Hope is the act you batter down doors with"!
King County Labor Council expels Seattle police union
‘Undeniable’ body cam and security video
shows Alameda County cop shoved Raptors president with credentials after title win
Brennan Center Hidden in Plain Sight
How to Help Protest or Demand Justice for George Floyd
Vanity Fair's September 2020 Issue: Guest-Edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Redlining
Slide by Dr. Ben Danielson
Undesign the Redline — designing the WE
Undesign the Redline Tool Kit by designing the WE - issuu
How Redlines Built White Wealth
Friday Fireside Chat with DeVon Douglass. (Ally Box Facebook) She will be discussing structural racism within government systems (great content to add some additional context to The Color of Law).
Mosaic Project and The Color of Law Video (35 min)
Form: Local Civil Rights Groups to change neighborhoods
Schools and Education - history textbooks ignore forced segregation
Contact author for book with curriculum available
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance
Cory Booker on housing/redlining:
Microaggressions
From How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
My Thoughts Posted on Ally Box Facebook Group:
Thanks for sharing this document.
I appreciate the format with the clear
examples and the description of the
messages received after a microaggression happens.
One thing I'm going to work on is looking up the
origin of more sayings and identifying any that have
become so familiar that they could pop out of my mouth
without knowing about and/or thinking about them first.
It takes lots of practice to break a habit.
I learned many years ago early in my teaching career
that the act of a white person driving by a person of color and
locking the car doors is a microaggression. Hearing the click of car doors locking
when someone drove by is like the papercuts over and over again that were
mentioned today in our talk and is a
racist act on the part of the driver.
Once my awareness was raised,
I caught myself doing just that and I had to consciously
practice to get rid of the behavior.
I appreciate the chance we got to talk, listen and learn today.
Microinterventions for Maximum Effect
from Yes! Magazine, Fall 2020 Issue, Bainbridge Island, WA
More Ally Box Resources
Andre Perry
Know Your Price by Andre Perry
Andre Perry / Fulton Street Forum Schools - 40 minutes mark / Data on black teachers
Related Media and Reading:
On Raising a Black Family in White America by ijeoma Oluo
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.
She is an assistant professor of African American Studies at
Princeton University and the author of several books, including
“Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership,”
which was a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for history.
We Should Still Defund the Police
Philadelphia, which has the highest poverty rate of any major U.S. city,
has had no public hospital since 1977. Meanwhile, the city spends hundreds of millions
of dollars annually on its police force, even as crime has gone into decline.
Making matters decidedly worse, many consequences of poverty
have been turned into crimes, including sleeping in cars or public places,
panhandling for money or food, public urination, shoplifting,
and many other things that poor people do when they do not
have the privacy and discretion of their own residence. T
he criminalization of poverty deepens its inescapability
by putting the poor into direct contact with the police.
But it is simply not true that police have become caretakers,
mental-health professionals, and social workers.
To make such a claim degrades these professions,
which require years of studying and training for the purpose of
improving people’s lives. Bass’s mischaracterization also sows confusion
about what the police are generally doing in such cases
—which is arresting people who are in crisis or just poor.
They are not intervening for the sake of reducing harm.
"Community Facing Race" King 5
Still She Rises Tulsa based justice group
BIPOC Author Talks
NBA Presents A New Black Politics
Shared by Ally Box member, Christi
National Book Award Winners Ta-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) and Ibram X. Kendi (STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF RACIST IDEAS IN AMERICA) and Longlister Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (RACE FOR PROFIT:
HOW BANKS AND THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY UNDERMINED BLACK HOMEOWNERSHIP)
kick off the virtual season of NBF Presents for a conversation on the state of Black politics—
offering historical context to the global uprising, Black Lives Matter, and response of
Black politicians and organizers. Less than a month until the 2020 presidential election,
these authors and thinkers consider where this moment leaves Black voters.
Moderated by Franklin Leonard, founder of the Black List.
Colson Whitehead: 2020 National Book Festival
Whitehead talks about history / primary sources at 25 minutes
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
My Question: How can we move past the compromise you spoke of in school curriculums?
Teachers don't always have autonomy to move away from prescribed curriculums
in WA state where I am.
Glaude's Answer: I teach Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia,
Query 6 and 14--and every year my students see the truth
and are shocked!!
When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition)
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Patrisse Cullors – Artist | Author | Educator | Organizer
My Question: What are the most important legislations states can put in place to change the system?
Cullor's Answer: Work to pass LEARN MORE – The Breathe Act
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
Research Guides: Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature:
Research Guides: Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature:
Preview — Deacon King Kong by James McBride Journalist Washington Post / Boston Globe
Set in the Red Hook Projects, Brooklyn, 1969
“The coping is the joy and the joy is the journey.”
“American ingenuity is deeply rooted in music.”
(Ask)“Is that right?”
“We have to learn to listen”
“Recent events...have inspired these young people that I thought --
real change is possible and it’s coming.”
“We left them with a pile of dung and they are turning it into magic dust.”
Kendi and Saeed Jones Moderated by NPR correspondent Michel Martin.
Confronting Racism and Bigotry: 2020 National Book Festival
“Passing the torch to our generation” Kendi
Preview — How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Preview — How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
“...do not think of death first when they think of themselves” Saeed Jones
Moderator Question: How do you feel about white participation?
Complicated - spike in book sales, embrace people
that are willing to do the work, but…what’s more important? Jones
Torn about it … opening up readers to other books… transform
themselves so they can see… Kendi
“People love our music but they don’t love us” NPR correspondent Michel Martin.
NBA Presents A New Black Politics
Shared by Ally Box member, Christi
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