We have an opportunity to honor all the victims of the #charlestonshooting by working to address individual and institutional racism.
Here are just a few resources that might help.
- Avery Research Center’s Race & Social Justice Initiative
The mission of the Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) at the College of Charleston is to promote public awareness and dialogue about race and social justice issues in the Charleston area, the state of South Carolina, and beyond, through a collaborative effort led by the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Addlestone Library, the African American Studies Program, the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), and multiple community partners. - How to be an interrupter: A white person’s guide to activism
The battle is and always has been a battle for the hearts and minds of white people in this country. The fight against racism is our issue. It’s not something that we’re called on to help people of color with. We need to become involved with it as if our lives depended on it because really, in truth, they do.” - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh’s essay on white privilege is as powerful today as it was when she wrote it back in 1988. - An Open Letter to White Men
- ShowingupforRacialJustice.org
SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice. Connect with CHARLESTON SURJ on their facebook group. - PISAB.org
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation. - Moving Race Conversation Forward
Moving the Race Conversation Forward is a report by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation that aims to reshape and reform the way we talk about race and racism in our country. The paper includes content analysis of mainstream media (finding two-thirds of race-focused media coverage fails to consider systemic racism), analysis of seven harmful racial discourse practices, and case studies of successful interventions to counteract these trends.
RACISM: THE 6-MINUTE CHALLENGE
Can we listen, feel, and focus for 6 minutes of insight into institutional racism and white privilege without reflexively dismissing or discounting this passionate young woman’s message? Can we not fall in to the traps of guilt and blame and instead simply face the reality that impacts us all?
Can we do better?
In this video, Laci Green talks about the nature of racism in 2015. She begins by challenging commonly held ideas about what racism is. She highlights how racist attitudes have created a racist system…which have created more racist attitudes. In order to stop the cycle, she illustrates 6 common ways that racism is institutionalized. Wealth disparities and housing, education, employment, mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality are all touched upon. She ends by calling white America to stop making excuses that enable the past to continue and instead acknowledge the injustice right in front of us.
REFERENCED, SOURCES, AND FURTHER READING
WEALTH & HOUSING
Housing discrimination report
http://www.huduser.org/portal/publica…
The racist housing policy that made your neighborhood
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/a…
A battle for fair housing is raging but mostly forgotten
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2…
Race & income inequality
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/washington…
Racial disparities in lending
https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-c…
EDUCATION
Data snapshot: school discipline
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/lis…
Status and trends in black education
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo…
EMPLOYMENT
Racial bias in hiring
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/…
Whiter jobs, higher wages – EPI Report
http://www.epi.org/publication/whiter…
MASS INCARCERATION
Racial trends
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/p…
Is prison the new Jim Crow?
http://www.uua.org/multiculturalism/g…
International prison population trends
http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-…
US has largest prison population in the world
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014…
Racism in the prison industrial complex
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/ma…
Criminal justice fact sheet
http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-j…
RACIAL PROFILING
Race & the drug war (coke vs cocaine info)
http://www.drugpolicy.org/race-and-dr…
Show me your papers
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2012…
Blacks suffer under stop & frisk – man stopped 258 times
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/a…
Disproportionate minority contact – Report
http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publ…
Racial gaps in arrests – a staggering disparity
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/na…
POLICE BRUTALITY
Police militarization
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-…
Police brutality statistics
http://graphs.net/police-brutality-st…
Twice a week white officers shoot black suspects
http://mic.com/articles/96452/one-tro…
#racialtransformer
#walterscott
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#charlestongood
#chs
#charleston
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