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ANTI-RACISM & THIRD CULTURE SUPPORT RESOURCES
This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now.
10 DAYS OF 10 THINGS People of Color Need You To Do:
We know, Janet Jackson and En Vogue told you to be color blind in the 90s, but we’ve learned that assimilation requires homogeny. We don’t want to assimilate. People of Color want to be seen, heard and celebrated for who we are.
HISTORY PRE-WRITTEN: TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSFER OF TRAUMA, SYSTEMIC RACISM AND UNRESOLVED GRIEF.
At the tender age of seven, and before I even learned the language to name it, I had experienced the painful reality of racism.
Part VI of VI: What Blackness Looks Like- I WANT TO BREATHE:
As I reflect upon what it still means to be black, or a person of color in the United States of America (U.S.), I think about the sleepless nights I have experienced being concerned for my black and multiracial children (especially after we returned from living overseas).
Part II of VI: What Blackness Looks Like- HOW DO YOU NAVIGATE LIFE WHEN WHITE IS THE STATUS QUO AND ANYTHING ELSE IS “OTHER?”
Britain’s racism hasn’t disappeared; it’s just gone underground. When white is the status quo and anything‘other’ is exactly that, where do you go? For me, it’s Morocco.
