What Will White Womyn Do To End Racism? Racial Equity: The Lack of... Wednesday zoom September 27th

Can we count the ways in which (the lack of) equity robs and devastates Black and brown people while unjustly enhancing and protecting the lives and lifestyles of white people?

This time our “What Will White Womyn Do To End Racism” zoom gatherings will embrace Dr. Nikki Ranier’s recent “Racial Equity Challenge”as our springboard for discussing, understanding, revealing the impact and daily (mostly unconscious among most white people) benefits and detriments of racism while we strategize together to hold each other accountable as we increase our anti-racism tool-box, enabling us to act more powerfully against racism and establish racial equity.

In 2020, news of the horrific police murder of George Floyd and the earlier killing of Beonna Taylor motivated several white womyn to come together to figure out what white womyn were going to do to end racism.

Now there’s the much lesser promulgated news of the police murder of Ta’Kiya Young and her unborn daughter, the laws that imprison mothers like Victoria Lopez destroying her family while depriving and impoverishing her children, the 33% increase in the banning of books most by Black or brown womyn and men especially the truth-telling critical race ‘theory’ ones, the staggering disparities of homelessness occurring - or not - by race .

Equity.

Will this search centering around the means to identify and achieve racial equity inspire you to join us this Sunday evening 7pm eastern, 4pm pacific?

Because this is Yom Kippur, it will not count as our first of 6 zoom gatherings but an extra gathering. Please email, message or text me for the zoom link.

Here’s the link to Dr Lanier’s Day 1 Racial Equity Challenge https://www.tiktok.com/@nikki.../video/7269805134903840046

Also, if possible watch the short documentary “Segregated by Design” https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/

Finally, check out the brief report back of last Sunday’s zoom gathering here: https://codepinkjournals.blogspot.com/2023/09/brief-report-back-sunday-910-what-will.html?fbclid=IwAR2kvTbDWPRI5nWNSW9q3LQXbz9UF5BZzruB4vUiuHrxaPfPWypHJKty-3M

Brief Report Back: Introductory Zoom gathering Wednesday September 13th

This was our first introductory Wednesday zoom gathering and will not count as one of the 6 semimonthly gatherings. As there were two of us today, we will work on getting more womyn signed up for our next session, which will also be introductory.

Today we talked about how we handle it when a white womon leader says or does something racist – leadership that we need and valued up until that point. First we discussed the impact on white womyn, the choice or decision white womyn need to make if white womyn want to stand against racism and act in an anti-racist manner, supporting those Black and/or brown womyn who white womyn are attempting to work in solidarity with.

We talked about the superiority and inferiority charge that could potentially give us when we point the finger verses when we come from the position that all white womyn are racist, not ‘just’ this leader or prominent figure.

We discussed the especially anti-Muslim racism prevalent in Wales and the many ways and on many levels it manifests itself, as well as anti-Black and brown racism.

Especially in the feminist community, most blatantly targeting the shera Hibo Wardere from Somalia whose life’s work is the smashing of the FGM practice, which ‘liberals’ are claiming is “transphobic”, therefore not just not supporting her work, but vilianizing her.

We also talked about Cherry Smiley whose work is to end male violence, especially sexual violence and especially against Indigenous womyn.

Our next zoom gathering will be September 27th, Wednesday 9am Pacific/ noon Eastern! We’re seeking new participants!