Brief Report Back Sunday October 22: What Will White Womyn Do To End Racism

We had a very intense gathering where some of our understandings of racism were increased and where we gained a few new tools in addressing racism when it shows its ugly head.

Lynn shared her experiences from Texas, both at the pumpkin patch (which was majority if not all white) and when connecting with folks of color at the Amal event. We spoke of DNA and by seeking to identify it, what it can reveal to white people, especially as white people’s ancestors ‘chose’ to assimilate and claim ‘whiteness’ as their new cultural identify. In that process, lost the roots of culture that differentiated white people from each other and left the following generations separated from language, tradition, history, etc.

One womon shared a list of questions to help a white person stop and think about what racist thing they just said or did, inspired by a tiktok site Ms. Frazzled

1) What just happened?

2) What were you thinking about when that happened?

3) What have you thought since?

4) Who might have been effected by what happened?

5) What did you realize or think now?

We then role played, using the above format to address a former interaction between one of the white participants and a Black person she was attempting to help and explain why her actions were not racist.