What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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History is now. We are living it. If we can’t accept the past and how it affects wealth and opportunity and knowledge production and value systems, we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.” Creamer, Ella (12 July 2023). "Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows". The Guardian.

I recently read 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘰 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵 by @emmadabiri and felt inspired to share my main takeaways from this insightful, radical essay.

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Most importantly, this book is for everyone. We should also appreciate that we have an academic like Emma Dabiri writing as if James Connolly and Audre Lorde had a love child. Attend town halls, candidate meet-and-greets, etc for political candidates and ask about ending mass incarceration, reducing mandatory minimum sentences, reducing or ending solitary confinement, decriminalizing weed, ending cash bail, divesting from private prisons, divesting from banks, divesting from banks that finance the Dakota Access Pipeline, etc. Dabiri lives in London, where she is completing her PhD in visual sociology at Goldsmiths while also teaching at SOAS and continuing her broadcast work. [10] [11] She is married and has two children. [5] Not good enough. What we need is coalition. A collective commitment to empathy and change based on the foundations of both self-examination and grounded critical thought, aimed at the mechanisms of exploitation, which is capitalism.

Academic and author: Emma Dabiri (Photography by Stuart Simpson) What exactly are the problems with online activism? If we're talking about it being opportunities and resources, then that's something that can't occur on an individual level, it has to be created through the cultivation of more equal societies. And that requires this analysis of class and capitalism that no one's engaging with.” What makes you hopeful that allyship will grow into a coalition of change? I felt it lent an accessibility to the topics that put the reader somewhat at ease and more open to contemplating the questions she is posing. It is crucial to connect the dots between the origins of global capitalism and colonialism, and the invention of race.”

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Call or write to your federal legislators in support of The Democracy Restoration Act (s. 481), which would enact a simple rule: Americans who are out of prison and living in the community get to vote in federal elections. If someone has completed their sentence, they should be free to fully participate in elections. The author proposes coalition over allyship as a way to achieve this, defining the latter as an individualistic process that would only separate us more. Instead "coalition is about mutuality. It reframes the task as identifying common ground—while attending to the specificities of racism—that all can strive for and that all will benefit from." It’s solidarity as opposed to charity. She bases this, on coalition building that have work in the past. What interests me is thinking about the ways in which a vast array of oppressions or forms of disadvantage might have a common origin.’ Recently online activism has become the mean to do any kind of activism, replacing actually doing something with, well, a performance. The need to follow what’s 'trending' in social media plataforms is somewhat counterproductive, because these hollow, worthless gestures become the standard thing to do, and even if people argue it gives 'visibility', what's the use if no work is actually being done in the real world. The current moment is very historical but where’s the programme, the consistent set of demands characterising and unifying this current moment? We seem to have replaced doing anything with saying something, in a space where the word ‘conversation’ has achieved an obscenely inflated importance as a substitute for action.

Seek out a diverse group of friends for you. Practice real friendship and intimacy by listening when POC talk about their experiences and their perspectives. They’re speaking about their pain.Not going to lie and say I did more than skim through the book. I stumbled across this in university [the only segment I read through was presented as a paper] hence that was on my reading list. Even my extremely left-leaning liberal professor was less than impressed and ripped the piece to shreds. Call or write to your federal legislators in support of the bipartisan Justice Safety Valve Act (S. 2695). The bill is sponsored by Sen Paul (R-KY) and would allow judges to give sentences other than the mandatory minimum sentence for a federal crime. An insider’s account of the rampant misconduct within the Trump administration, including the tumult surrounding the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. Listen without ego and defensiveness to people of color. Truly listen. Don’t scroll past articles written by people of color — Read them.

Poorly thought-through social commentary on the race front. A mishmash of personal opinion and popular “wokeness” that is a front for socialism aka. Untested communism aka. Benevolent totalitarian dictatorship Support that new apartment building proposed to be built in your neighborhood. Don’t participate in “ snob zoning,” which is opposing new builds of apartments because wealthy white folks are afraid the apartment building will “change the character of a community.” For more information on this, see #47. Yes. I rate this. I’m just gonna write a mini-essay here lol if u want to read it but in short I thought this was good. I think the genre of instructing white people on how to act and behave when it comes to racism is short-sighted and needs to go and hopefully this book can start this conversation. I wrote something similar a while ago. As the book makes clear, we have to realise that racism hurts all of us. It isn’t just about those who it targets – it is a poison which corrupts everything. The unwavering fact that race is a myth shakes me to my core. Although intellectually I know that race is human-made, it still sincerely affects me. So much of my life has revolved around contemplating who (or what) I am. My mixed identity is complex, and anxious ruminations over where I fit in took a lot out of me, which was energy that could have been used elsewhere. Energy that was conserved by white, Irish friends who never had to consider their racial identity.Find and join a local “ white space” to learn more about and talk out the conscious and unconscious biases us white folks have. If there’s not a group in your area, start one. a b Dabiri, Emma (2021). What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-311271-1. The internet has often facilitated dissemination of information rather than knowledge; as such, even in cases that aren't quite 'fake news,' online commentary skews to the reductive. It tells you what to think, rather than teaching you how to think!" Any Racialized Group of People Have Very Different Responses to Each Other is a thought-provoking look at white allyship and racial coalition that confronts whiteness (supremacy, denial, guilt and saviourism) by telling white people to accept that colonisation, imperialism and racism is at the root of their current privilege. Dabiri’s manifesto for radical change…marries historical context with contemporary commentary and analysis in a direct, accessible style. Time