“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” –Bishop Desmond Tutu
Choosing Neutrality you have chosen the side of the oppressor. In this episode our host will relay some of the tools to better understand and ways to better address the systemic and structural racism that plagues this country: let us all become active in the struggle for equity and equality for all.
Resources for Re-Education:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SmqjTqfo3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLQLUpNGsc
https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/
http://www.justicepolicy.org/news/8775
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/unknown-date/party-rules.htm
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
https://www.libertyhill.org/agenda-for-a-just-future?gclid=Cj0KCQjw_ez2BRCyARIsAJfg-kt0V6ijBpuL0ZFx2jCutvp-GqEAX1-48gAEKKt13ne3G8HPXAoQDZQaAnUpEALw_wcB
https://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_cointelpro.html
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/angela-davis
https://www.biography.com/activist/web-du-bois
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass
https://www.cypherleague.com/cypherleague/uniform-reporting-law-enforcement-improvement-act-a-new-method-to-improve-policing-and-prevent-brutality
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Colors-History-Aboriginal-African/dp/B004X4O988
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-baldwin
https://www.malcolmx.com/
https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431
https://www.amazon.com/If-They-Come-Morning-Resistance/dp/1784787698
https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Talk-About-Race/dp/1580056776
https://www.amazon.com/Their-Eyes-Were-Watching-God/dp/0060838671
https://www.cypherleague.com/cypherleague/uniform-reporting-law-enforcement-improvement-act-a-new-method-to-improve-policing-and-prevent-brutality
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