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LoR FB Page – Neurodivergence, Disability, and Taking Accountability for Racial Harm – Lace on Race – 792408381412971
Facebook Publication Date: 5/21/2021 7:05 There’s this pattern that happens when a white or non-Black person is asked to take responsibility for racist behavior: “This conversation is triggering. I will no longer engage.” “I wasn’t trying to be racist. I’m neurodivergent.” “I’m too sick to deal with this stress.” At times, mental illness, neurodivergence, and/or…
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LoR FB Page – – 792413174745825
Facebook Publication Date: 5/21/2021 7:05 Neurodivergence, Disability, and Taking Accountability for Racial Harm –by Alexia A There’s this pattern that happens when a white or non-Black person is asked to take responsibility for racist behavior: “This conversation is triggering. I will no longer engage.” “I wasn’t trying to be racist. I’m neurodivergent.” “I’m too sick…
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LoR FB Page – Vaccines and Medical Racism – Lace on Race – 794132884573854
Facebook Publication Date: 5/24/2021 16:05 In the last (at least for now) installment of the Race and Vaccines series, let us turn our attention to possible ways to address disparities in how the current crises has been handled in different cohorts, but also ways to impact the issue of medical racism as a whole. This…
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LoR FB Page – Remembrance and George Floyd: Introduction To The Series – Lace on Race – 794643221189487
Facebook Publication Date: 5/25/2021 14:05 May 25. This is a day of remembrance in what should be a week of reflection. One year ago today, George Floyd was murdered by a former police officer in Minnesota. We can say ‘murdered’, rather than ‘allegedly murdered’, or ‘fatally detained’, or ‘unfortunately felled’ or whatever euphemism is usually…
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LoR FB Page – – 794643767856099
Facebook Publication Date: 5/25/2021 14:05 May 25. This is a day of remembrance in what should be a week of reflection. One year ago today, George Floyd was murdered by a former police officer in Minnesota. We can say ‘murdered’, rather than ‘allegedly murdered’, or ‘fatally detained’, or ‘unfortunately felled’ or whatever euphemism is usually…
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LoR FB Page – Status update – 794930694494073
Facebook Publication Date: 5/26/2021 4:05 Permalink: https://www.facebook.com/laceonrace/posts/pfbid024k1bcXLZqsk4phq2DQRP3saDrEj6cyUJx2ChdMR1uUjmKhStG8u2R8eMyqz4ECjvl Post Type: Photo Caption Type: N/A Is Cross Post: 0 Is Share: 1 Impressions: 4 Reach: 4 Reactions: 15 Comments: 11 Shares: 0
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LoR FB Page – – 795164221137387
Facebook Publication Date: 5/26/2021 14:05 …The changes were less durable than anyone thought or, more accurately, than anyone wanted to admit. People, initially horrified at the visceral horror of imagining almost 10 minutes of a boot on a neck, eventually became desensitized. Join the discussion on the website. https://laceonrace.com/2021/05/25/remembrance-and-george-floyd-introduction-to-the-series/ Permalink: https://www.facebook.com/laceonrace/posts/pfbid02uRdz2W1YqdM4LNwcwnZNaqFddqJGxbcmRtAoSiZWfnk83Mz8DAWvWfq5gtZ3oonbl Post Type: Photo Caption…
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LoR FB Page – – 795694064417736
Facebook Publication Date: 5/27/2021 14:05 It’s a form of toxic positivity, this: refusing to accept the shadows even as we walk through toward light; stuffing down the bits that remind us of harm done to us, and also, and every bit as concerning, a staunch refusal to acknowledge that *we ourselves* are the one casting…
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LoR FB Page – Commentary for ‘to choose love is to choose death’ – Lace on Race – 795696617750814
Facebook Publication Date: 5/27/2021 14:05 I am honored to be a part of this year’s cohort of Supermajority, and one thing we are blessed with has been hearing from some powerful and impactful women. Last week, one of these women was Hope Giselle, who I will be referencing for a future series; she packed so…
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LoR FB Page – End of May Ask – Lace on Race – 797295564257586
Facebook Publication Date: 5/30/2021 17:05 As we come to the end of May, I always tend to wax reflective. As your newly affirmed official Executive Director of the Lace on Race Center for Racial Equity (using our newly minted formal name), it has been a month of paradox–so much has changed, and yet, nothing has,…