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Black Powerless Defense: The illusory, concealing, disempowering, and racist idea that Black people can’t be racist because Black people don’t have power.  Homework Page 142: How many pieces of legislation has the House passed that Mitch McConnell won’t to a vote? How many conservative federal judges have been appointed during this same time? […]

“[Venture capitalists] are people who by definition have said: my only goal is to make money for myself. But what we’ve done is allowed those people and that mentality to become pervasive; to become the dominant culture.” Marco Rogers is a senior engineer and technical leader with 15+ years of experience building innovative […]

White Anti-White Racist: One who is classifying people of European descent as biologically, culturally, or behaviorally inferior or conflating the entire race or White people with race power.  Homework Page 124: If your goal is to live and function as an antiracist, do you honestly have the courage to do what is right […]

“I don’t just want that people to realize that white people are complicit in white supremacy – I want you to question what whiteness means. I want you to learn about the history of whiteness.” Dr. Crystal Marie Fleming is Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies and Associate Faculty in the Department […]

Color Colorism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequities between Light people and Dark people, supported by racist ideas about Light and Dark people. Color Antiracism: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between Light people and Dark people, supported by antiracist ideas about Light and Dark […]

“Some of them require you to talk through and to like talk about that pain and suffering and then they still don’t learn anything from it. It’s almost as if Black people having a conversation or engaging in anything isn’t worth value unless there’s Black pain of some sort. Because we’re not allowed […]

Podcast Description “Some of them require you to talk through and to like talk about that pain and suffering and then they still don’t learn anything from it. It’s almost as if Black people having a conversation or engaging in anything isn’t worth value unless there’s Black pain of some sort. Because we’re not allowed […]

Behavior Behavioral Racist: One who is making individuals responsible for the perceived behavior of racial groups and making racial groups responsible for the behavior on individuals. Behavioral Antiracist: One who is making racial group behavior fictional and individual behavior real. Homework Page 94: Evaluate the current list of political candidates [local, national, and […]

“You don’t mediate someone being racist. You don’t mediate someone being groped at the bar. You don’t mediate this shit. You tell whoever was causing the problem to make it right or get the fuck out. And sometimes the only way to make it right is to get the fuck out.” Annalee Flower […]

Episode Overview Operating Perspective: There’s no “I’m not racist.” There’s ONLY racist and antiracist. An antiracist strategy isn’t about equality. It is about actually discrimination against the interests of the privileged, in favor of prioritizing the most vulnerable I’m not here to rehabilitate or change anyone’s mind. I want them gone because they’re […]