Podcast Description 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 […]

“Everyone wanted diversity for the board, but it was really unclear as to how on Earth you have diversity over an entire globe with only 40 people on the entire board.” Kate Klonick is an Assistant Professor at Law at St. John’s University Law School and an Affiliate Fellow at the Information Society […]

“White people specifically can take rules and policies designed to protect people of color – specifically black people – and use them as weapons. I don’t remember ever being taught that, but it is instinctual.” Pete Holiday is a software engineering leader with over twenty years of experience in tech. His focus areas […]

Culture Cultural Racist: One who is creating a cultural standard and imposing a cultural hierarchy among racial groups. Cultural Antiracist: One who is rejecting cultural standards and equalizing cultural differences among racial groups. Homework Page 86: Do some research to discover Black communities, outside of Africa that have developed their own African culture […]

“I have this enormous privilege. It would be a shame to not use it. Then again I get the thinking around it because I was brought up with that pretty much instilled in me since I was like five: like work for your stuff and then it’s your stuff and no one else […]

Body Bodily Racist: One who is perceiving certain racialized bodies as more animal-like and violent than others. Bodily Antiracist: One who is humanizing, deracializing, and individualizing nonviolent and violent behavior. Homework Page 73: “Unarmed Black bodies, which apparently look armed to fearful officers, are about twice as likely to be killed as unarmed […]

“In part I felt this was a safe decision because I had discovered Pursuit from my local library…I went to my own library’s coding classes and at the library’s graduation ceremony they were giving out information on other coding bootcamps if you wanted to take this a little further and Pursuit was one […]

Ethnicity Ethnic Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between racialized groups and are substantiated by racist ideas about racialized ethnic groups. Ethnic Antiracism: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between racialized ethnic groups and are substantiated by antiracist ideas about racialized ethnic groups. Homework […]

“I understand that in the tech industry, there are a lot of people that do not have a computer science background and a lot of companies are promoting this, but we’re still at a disadvantage and we’ll still feel very lost…I just feel like we’re going to be left behind regardless.” Twitter Anonymous […]

Biology Biological Racist: One who is expressing the idea that the races are meaningfully different in their biology and that these differences create a hierarchy of value. Biological Antiracist: One who is expressing the idea that the races are meaningfully the same in their biology and there are no genetic racial differences. Homework: […]