How to be a good white ally

[SoberCurious]

Can we share some ideas here please?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CA04VKDAyjb/?igshid=1coe9xx8vsdb3

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13th on Netflix is definitely worth a watch too....

You could write to your MP...

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/

Thanks for staying this thread. There's a brilliant UK-specific resource list here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1MJC_dO1Lb16T8e1UiHWNtGhTVprMChX4QiEuFWscQ1Q/

*starting not staying obviously

Thanks for joining @Porpoises 🖤

This parent toolkit looks interesting for talking to kids about racism:

https://www.parenttoolkit.com/social-and-emotional-development/advice/social-awareness/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-race-and-racism

Great resources there, thanks

I'd say get really educated on the subject. Read both history and contemporary books. Watch documentaries. Black Wall Street, Marcus garvey, the civil rights movement, African history, the British empire, slavery, Jim crow, apartheid, and more. It's only with the background of history we can truly understand what is going on.

Don’t vote in a publicised racist in the next election.

Wrote to mps. Get curriculum changed to include history of slavery and oppression.

Challenge racism in every level, on every social media platform. Don’t stop. White people need to understand the depths racism goes. It’s Our very bedrock, politically and socially. We need to destabilise the power of white rich men.

Absolutely! @NotNowPlzz

Don’t vote in a publicised racist in the next election.

Yes PLEASE don't vote him in again!! ** 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Read Robin Diangelo’s ‘White fragility’. It’s great at explaining systemic racism and white privilege and why white people get defensive when challenged on these things. how racism is a social not individual level. These things are not said to attack the individual but the system in which hands all the power and advantage to white people.

she’s honest about the times she’s been racist through learned behaviour while still being a nice person. Great eye opener.

Don't bring up your own experiences unless asked/invited to do so.

This doesn't mean your experiences didn't happen, and if someone tried to say that you're allowed to say 'my experiences happened and are valid, however nows not the time to talk about them', because that's exactly what it is, not the time to bring them up.

Thanks @Readysetcake
Have you read "Me & White Supremacy"?

Don't feel ashamed to admit you were wrong or change your opinion. That is what education is for, to inform people so that with the next information they can change their opinion beyond their own perceptions.

Great thread 🖤

Perhaps @nicky7654 you've missed the numerous reports and wide coverage of the peaceful protests of people lying on the floor or kneeling down, showing no violence whatsoever?

@nicky7654

Whatever your thoughts on the looters and how they should be dealt with that is not the point of this thread, take it somewhere it's relevant.

@SoberCurious no not yet, it’s on my list. I’ve read some of her essays though.

I just brought some Lovely children’s books to diversify our collection. I think that is important too. I’ve always tried to be diverse in the things I buy, so we already have some books with POC and non white dolls. But this has highlighted I should be doing so much more not just a token thing here or there. So I’ve brought some kids books that highlight the issues black people and POC have to face to help bring that conversation up with my small kids.

@diversekidsbooks on insta has been sharing some good ones. And lots of suggestions if you google diverse kids books.

Thanks @Readysetcake X

Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a brilliant, very readable novel that deals with issues of race & power structures very eloquently.

I found Afropean by Johny Pitts very interesting. A mix between personal travel diary and modern history book, he travels round Europe and discusses race and antiracism movements in the countries he visits.

There's an extract here: www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/26/afropean-notes-from-black-europe-paris-johny-pitts-extract

Thanks for the suggestions here.

@SoberCurious that just arrived in the post today! Seen quite a few recommend it so I’m really looking forward to starting it.