The social sector is known to have a halo of ‘good’ around it – making the idea that a nonprofit may be perpetuating white supremacy or racism itself seemingly difficult to believe at first glance to some. But many nonprofits were created and operate within the confines of white supremacist society and thus their continued…
We would like to think corporate America, particularly beloved companies, understand us as their customer/consumer and what and how we identify. When companies fall short of that expectation, particularly around social issues, reactions range from passive disappointment to much stronger calls to boycott affiliations in today’s modern cancel culture. Many also hold businesses to a…
It is critical that all of us be strongly and vocally anti-racist, and work to challenge the subtle, systemic, and systematic ways that discrimination exists throughout our society. The following are ways you can support equality, push for equity, and bring about justice.
We continue to stretch ourselves to learn more about what we don’t know, to learn more about who we’re missing from the table, and to learn more about how the systems we work with operate, but also and most importantly, how we might be unknowingly or unconsciously perpetuate the embedded racism within them.
Since the explosion of rightful outrage at the ongoing police brutality and indifference to the lives of black bodies by the criminal justice system, I have spent more time reflecting on what it means to be a white woman and how I contribute to white supremacy.
Inspired by the social climate and the words of Christine Margiotta on Building an Anti-Racist Community, Marta penned a moving poem.