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YUIR met with PPS administrator Dr Ware Allen, read Nijah Glenn's article on the meeting...
WWHAT'S UP?! Pittsburgh shared Emmai Alaquiva's album.
Emmai Alaquiva added 56 new photos to the album: 100 Black Women #SayHerName | Pittsburgh Pa. — with KingT'Challa Ransom and 7 others in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
There is nothing on this planet like the strength of BLACK WOMEN. They not only said the names of women who's lives have been taking by law enforcement...they s...ay the names of women around the world. This is not a cute cat video or a meme featuring your favorite rapper…this is simply 100 of the strongest women you will ever meet. I encourage you to COMMENT so that they see your support and SHARE so that the universe can tremble from the sound of their voice. #dayattheoffice #100BlackWomen #BlackLivesMatter #SayHerName
See MoreThanks to Christina Springer for sharing this.
"... an abiding truth: Only white people can resolve the problem of their own prejudice.
Cultural observers and scholars began to explore the idea of “whiteness” as a racial concept in the late 1980s. To be white in America was to possess a kind of default race that was so dominant and normative that it did not need to be named, let alone examined. These scholars noted that white racism would have no possibility of cure until white people themselves honestly and scrutinized their own race, its attendant privileges and power, and their anxieties, fears and biases about people of color."
Interview with WHAT'S UP?! folks Mary Parker and lizzie anderson!
We are beyond excited to share an interview with the dynamic duo behind Just Collaboration, a Pittsburgh-based consulting group that specializes in fostering diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. In other words, they get paid to have really really difficult and life changing conversations with...
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As white people, we are afforded a range of privileges and protections that people of color are not afforded and it’s important for us to recognize this and act...ively work to change it. This is deeply and historically rooted. This country was founded on optimism and pluralism, but also on slave labor, exploitation, violence, dehumanization. We can’t get bogged down in the guilt or shame of this history, but we must acknowledge that our story is a part of that.
The only way to “move on” from that reality is to never “move on,” to understand that just as people of color have to spend a lifetime thinking about their own skin color and how it affects the way they are able to walk through the world, we are walking through the world, this country, this city, these streets, as white persons.
We make it a part of our daily consciousness even when it seems tiring and burdensome (this is not a choice for people of color, nor is it for us). We must commit to interrogating the privileges that we inherit and constantly look for creative ways to subvert hierarchies, redistribute power, connect the unconnected.
Understand that this isn’t about being a “good white person.” This is about being brave and convicted and imperfect and tireless and loving and devastated and sometimes feeling dumb about how to make change and taking it personally. None of us are above bias and racism. We must apologize when we say or do something racist. We can shut up and ask questions. But we certainly must cease becoming personally, individually defensive about the FACT that white people retain the power to either maintain or dismantle racism. That is undeniably true. The individual responsibility aspect comes down to whether we choose to actively undo systemic racism, or to sit back and pretend it has nothing to do with us.
- The above is largely paraphrased and in some cases word for word copied from an article by Courtney E Martin, for the blog On Being by Krista Tippett. It's so thorough, and clear I couldn't help adapting it and using it as a comment elsewhere. Upon reading it again, I wanted to share it once more. The original was intended to be what patents tell their white children about racism, but I think it's suitable for all white folks to read and then act upon.
AUG8
Mon 5:00 PM in EDTFreedom Corner
113 people interested · 27 people going
Great conversation salon tonight at our Open Meeting. Mark your calendar for the first Monday of each month to join us in the future!
A coalition of more than 60 organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement has issued a list of demands calling for policing and criminal justice reforms. "A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom, & Justice" is the result of a year-long process grounded in the shared belief that together we can end state violence in all its forms -- from failing schools that criminalize our children to the poisoning of our water to the attack on Black political power. Check out the demands and SIGN ON at http://policy.m4bl.org #Vision4BlackLives
WWHAT'S UP?! Pittsburgh shared their event.
AUG1
Mon 7:00 PM in EDTPittsburgh, PA, United States
62 people interested · 15 people going
"Blue Lives Matter bills are offensive to any demographic currently or historically targeted by law enforcement. Police cannot be victims of systemic violence because they are literal agents of white supremacy! America’s racism has not only given them power, but made them the actual Powers, the enforcers of law, the enforcers of white supremacy, and now they are shielded under the pretense of marginalization. There’s a dark irony in the fact that police, who killed an unarmed... black person nearly twice a week in 2015, are protected by the death penalty. Enacting “injury, intimidation, or interference” against police in this country could get you killed by the government — as if being black and alive weren’t reason enough. Will protesting qualify as interference? Does wearing a #BlackLivesMatter t-shirt qualify as intimidation?
I fear that it might."
WWHAT'S UP?! Pittsburgh shared MLK Sit In's event.
Sunday schedule! Talkin' Racial Justice at Open Streets and then the MLK Sit In!
JUL31
WWHAT'S UP?! Pittsburgh shared their event.
Join us on Monday. We'll have lots of ways for you to engage.
AUG1
Mon 7:00 PM in EDTPittsburgh, PA, United States
62 people interested · 15 people going
WWHAT'S UP?! Pittsburgh added an event.
AUG1
Mon 7:00 PM in EDTPittsburgh, PA, United States
62 people interested · 15 people going
WWHAT'S UP?! Pittsburgh added an event.
JUL31
Sun 9:30 AM in EDTDowntown side of the Roberto Clemente Bridge
60 people interested · 4 people going
Discussions about racism should be all-inclusive and open to people of all skin colors. However, to put it simply, sometimes White people lack the experience or education that can provide a rudimentary foundation from which a productive conversation can be built. This is not necessarily the fault of...
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"What makes the items in the list a micro-validation is when they occur in a conversation with other whites. Someone (a white person) say something that shows white fragility or affirms subtle, implicit white entitlement or white privilege, and you (a white person) respond in a way that validates, affirms or justifies what the first person said. Together, now, we have participated in white supremacy."
