Kate Oliverのインスタグラム(birchandpine) - 6月10日 03時11分

Several years back, my wife and I began to unpack our racism through reading and a course my wife took on racial equity. My reading and her course happened around the same time, and we began to have conversations about our own racism and white privilege at home. Until that moment in time, I had always believed that there were racists and non-racists. I had been raised to believe that was how things worked. I thought of myself as a generally kind person who didn’t hate anyone based on their skin color.
While I certainly didn’t hate anyone based on their skin color, I definitely didn’t understand racism, learned bias, or white privilege.
This past week, I realized that while I had started anti-racism work, it wasn’t enough.
Last week, when I muted my regular content - photos of my life, travels, home, and our family - I did so to #amplifymelanatedvoices and used my Stories to share content from Black voices. In addition, I decided to take a closer look at who I follow online. Not only was I following mostly white people, but I also noticed that I follow mostly straight people too. I don’t even follow a lot of the members of my own (LGBTQIA) marginalized community, but that’s another conversation for another day.
This past week, online and in the public sphere, I muted myself, listened to and shared Black voices, and began to diversify my feed.
At home this past week, we have continued the conversation. We have been talking with our white friends about our collective racism and openly voiced our support for the protests and Black community with our conservative family members. I suggested a book club to some friends where we can read about racism and then meet up via Zoom every two weeks to discuss. We’ve donated our dollars and signed petitions and protested. We sat down with our daughter at several points throughout the week and spoke about what was happening in the world now, and the history behind it all. *Swipe left on the image to continue reading or read in comments below.

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