I love this important story and appreciate Meeka so much for letting us publish it here. I also deeply regret that when we had to republish it, all the original comments and likes were lost. Because there was a lot of important discussion in there, and a lot more wisdom and information from Meeka, what I did was (in my non-efficient basically analog way) copied most of the comments from the old one so I can restate them here myself for people coming to this now who had not had a chance to read them. They are worth it! Stay tuned.
Thank you all for still being here and thank you Meeka most of all for giving this to all of us to learn from and talk about.
Wow, a brilliant, rough, gritty and uncomfortable yet deeply necessary read. Thank you Meeka, I'll be digesting this one for a bit and going to make my husband read it too.
white fragility. What’re we going to do about it? I have not carved out dedicated time for looking at mine enough lately. White supremacy is a white people issue. We are constantly complicit unless explicitly doing work to dismantle it and sometimes still then. Pretty baked into the system itself, as the author says.
Constantly complicit exactly. And when confronted with outcomes like Kyren Lacy's death or what happened just the other day to Meeka's son, it feels unconscionable, which it is.
I love this important story and appreciate Meeka so much for letting us publish it here. I also deeply regret that when we had to republish it, all the original comments and likes were lost. Because there was a lot of important discussion in there, and a lot more wisdom and information from Meeka, what I did was (in my non-efficient basically analog way) copied most of the comments from the old one so I can restate them here myself for people coming to this now who had not had a chance to read them. They are worth it! Stay tuned.
Thank you all for still being here and thank you Meeka most of all for giving this to all of us to learn from and talk about.
Wow, a brilliant, rough, gritty and uncomfortable yet deeply necessary read. Thank you Meeka, I'll be digesting this one for a bit and going to make my husband read it too.
Thanks, Shawna! That's great about passing it along to your husband. I sent it to two people I think would get something from it also.
white fragility. What’re we going to do about it? I have not carved out dedicated time for looking at mine enough lately. White supremacy is a white people issue. We are constantly complicit unless explicitly doing work to dismantle it and sometimes still then. Pretty baked into the system itself, as the author says.
Constantly complicit exactly. And when confronted with outcomes like Kyren Lacy's death or what happened just the other day to Meeka's son, it feels unconscionable, which it is.