Before we retired the Goodsharing platform, we grabbed 8 anti-racism posts that we think are worth sharing again.
- The sordid history of housing discrimination in America
“As of 2016, the median wealth for black families in America was $17,600, while the median wealth for white families was $171,000. One of the biggest factors driving these disparities is housing. A home is the most valuable thing many people will own. And buying a nicer home in a nicer neighborhood has always been the easiest way to climb up the socioeconomic ladder. But that option hasn’t always been available to everyone, especially black families.”
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/12/4/20953282/racism-housing-discrimination-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor - The Great White Heist
“Almost every argument for reparations is anchored in the injustice and residual effects of slavery. And it is often challenged by predictably trite counterarguments: “Slavery was so long ago.” “So few people owned slaves.” “What about the Black people who owned slaves?” “That’s how it was back then.” “How can you ask for reparations for something that was not a crime?”
However, there is a more compelling argument that may be more irrefutable. Namely, that slavery was just one small part of a loan that Black people invested into America for which we never reaped the dividends or the principal. ”
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/black-lives/2020/08/26/reparations-home-ownership/ - STAMP OUT HATE SC – Join the Campaign
“The more we can demonstrate the support of our state’s non-profits, grassroots organizations, congregations, and businesses for a hate crime law, the quicker it will happen.” Sign On For You, Your Business, or Your Organization
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https://stampouthate.sc - Certain Streets are Designed to Kill
How US Roadways target minorities and the poor
Are there death streets in the Lowcountry? Wed like to know…
“The lack of urgency around the problem of pedestrian deaths may, in part, reflect the relatively low status of those being killed. Walking deaths fall disproportionately on those who are poor, black and brown, elderly, disabled, low-income, or some combination thereof—marginalized people with fewer political resources to demand reforms.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90543235/certain-streets-are-designed-to-kill-how-u-s-roadways-target-minorities-and-the-poor - Confronting Modern Philanthropy’s Role in Racial Injustice
“The myth of the corporate American do-gooder is a thinly veiled attempt at upholding the capitalist systems that produce and entrench systemic injustice and inequality. The philanthropic community must—and can—change this. ” #goodbooks #antiracism
https://skoll.org/2020/07/29/confronting-modern-philanthropys-role-in-racial-injustice/ - 9 Essential Reads For Your Racial Justice Conversations
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2017/12/19/9-essential-reads-for-your-racial-justice-conversations/ - How to explain systemic racism to non-liberals like me
“if you think that it is a major social problem when large numbers of people are pushed to the margins of important aspects of American life — well, then you should believe that it’s a problem even when you aren’t one of those marginalized. And if you believe in the ideals of the American founding . . . in the American Dream . . . then you should believe that we must keep working at this problem until we’ve finally kicked it. ” #libertarian
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-the-covid-19-world-systemic-racism-is-deadly/2020/07/14/aabe1672-c601-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html - 8 Must-Reads by Women Who Take on White Supremacy and Patriarchal Power
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/03/21/women-writers-books-race-gender-justice/
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