One of the foundational elements to being a change maker is knowing and understanding your social position.

There are things that happen when we socialize with people that we grow up around and we find it to be natural and do not challenge these ways of socialization even though many of them are harmful.

We have privileges that we need to recognize because privileges are afforded by social position. Privilege is not shameful; we just need to know how to use it. Privilege is another word for power, just with a societal and systemic application. Unfortunately, we are not taught how to connect power and privilege to understand our social position and how our Position is given to us by the condition of domination.

One area that white folks in America and generally white folks around the world need to engage with to address their social position with a posture of humility and healing.

You can have your position, but you need to check your posture.

What does this look like?

Too long white people have relied on Black folks and people of color to direct their every step; the work is too burdensome, and the labor is tiresome. The work to be done has been laid out, the steps have been directed, and now the action needed is for white folks to step in to do their work.

Traditionally the work for white folk is to:

– Understand privilege

– Be able to explain racism

– Have arguments against systemic racism

– Grasp the concept of intersectionality

– Talk about historical and current forms of systemic racism

– Practice scripts to refute bigoted racist

We are not taught how to: 

– Organize

– Talk about and divest from power

– Heal the white oppressor body

– Rebuild trust and healing

– Address the intersection of capitalism and racism

– Redistribute wealth and property

The goal is to build the beloved community and white people are a part of that community. White people will need to know how to build new democratic institutions and to do that we will first need to know how to do community organizing and talk about power. Even more foundationally, white people will need to learn what community is and what it means to look after a collective.

To get to the beloved community we will have to know how to rebuild trust and move towards transformative healing, which means we will have to heal the oppressor wound in our body as our body has carried a posture dictated by somaticcharacteristics as the oppressor.

On top of that we will have to address the deep seeded system of capitalism and racism as two intertwined systems built upon one another so that the systems do not maintain the oppressive status quo of domination and dehumanization.

We want the healing and repair to take place relationally and socially, biologically, and organizationally, personally, and politically.

These are some of the bigger topics white people need to address to do their part in ending white supremacy. To engage these deeper check out my new series called White People Workshops.

My liberation as a white person is tied to the liberation of others and until this healing happens there will be no freedom unless we are all free.

One of the foundational elements to being a change maker is knowing and understanding your social position.

There are things that happen when we socialize with people that we grow up around and we find it to be natural and do not challenge these ways of socialization even though many of them are harmful.

We have privileges that we need to recognize because privileges are afforded by social position. Privilege is not shameful; we just need to know how to use it. Privilege is another word for power, just with a societal and systemic application. Unfortunately, we are not taught how to connect power and privilege to understand our social position and how our Position is given to us by the condition of domination.

One area that white folks in America and generally white folks around the world need to engage with to address their social position with a posture of humility and healing.

You can have your position, but you need to check your posture.

What does this look like?

Too long white people have relied on Black folks and people of color to direct their every step; the work is too burdensome, and the labor is tiresome. The work to be done has been laid out, the steps have been directed, and now the action needed is for white folks to step in to do their work.

Traditionally the work for white folk is to:

– Understand privilege

– Be able to explain racism

– Have arguments against systemic racism

– Grasp the concept of intersectionality

– Talk about historical and current forms of systemic racism

– Practice scripts to refute bigoted racist

We are not taught how to: 

– Organize

– Talk about and divest from power

– Heal the white oppressor body

– Rebuild trust and healing

– Address the intersection of capitalism and racism

– Redistribute wealth and property

The goal is to build the beloved community and white people are a part of that community. White people will need to know how to build new democratic institutions and to do that we will first need to know how to do community organizing and talk about power. Even more foundationally, white people will need to learn what community is and what it means to look after a collective.

To get to the beloved community we will have to know how to rebuild trust and move towards transformative healing, which means we will have to heal the oppressor wound in our body as our body has carried a posture dictated by somaticcharacteristics as the oppressor.

On top of that we will have to address the deep seeded system of capitalism and racism as two intertwined systems built upon one another so that the systems do not maintain the oppressive status quo of domination and dehumanization.

We want the healing and repair to take place relationally and socially, biologically, and organizationally, personally, and politically.

These are some of the bigger topics white people need to address to do their part in ending white supremacy. To engage these deeper check out my new series called White People Workshops.

My liberation as a white person is tied to the liberation of others and until this healing happens there will be no freedom unless we are all free.