Facebook Publication Date: 11/22/2021 4:11

Some of this I agree with, but I think some of this, even though it’s calling white people out, actually does not necessarily mitigate harm to black and brown people.

I will say more.

When I read this, it seems like the *only* thing that white people can do is to listen.

But just listening and learning is the name of the game with anti-racism, according to most wipipo. That, by itself, is so not enough. All that makes for is a well-read racist.

And progressive white people now understand a lot of what she saying. But that’s where it stops. It’s passive. And with absolutely no social capital or power analysis, it’s lacking.

So while I think that at least at the beginning stages what she says is important and necessary, it is by no means complete.

This is the problem.

*White people setting the terms of what effective racial Justice Praxis looks like*.

Damn it, I have one more thing to say. It’s about money! She’s telling you to find and follow 50 people of color and to absorb everything you can from them.

She doesn’t mention compensating them.

As someone who believes that white supremacy is primarily an economic construct, this omission is glaring.

The consumerist nature of the last six years of white people turning their attention to racial Justice, only to abandon it, only to pick it up again when something exciting happens oh, but the tendency to do this as a one-sided consumerist consumptive move is harmful to black and brown people.

But we are punished when we dare to talk about it, however carefully and gingerly.

By the very white people who follow us so long as the information is free and they never have to do anything with it.

This is a big deal.

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