I’D LIKE TO KNOW….
After each webinar the following questions were asked, however we didnt have time to address them:
- Do you think the police chief would join the conversation?
- We’ve reached out multiple times, and are doing our best to get Chief Payne to sit or speak on the panel.
- The only topic that I request specifically is activism intersectionality; how does one marshal one’s emotional/financial/physical resources when one deeply cares about multiple different injustices? It is difficult to care about so many things when so much is wrong, and I think a lot of people get paralyzed by guilt and do nothing as a result.
- I’d like to hear a “list” of things white people do that may be unconsciously making POC uncomfortable. I think we are all aware of what the outwardly racist are doing to make POC feel unsafe, judged etc…but I know there are things well meaning people can learn. More advice similar to understanding that “Hey man, I don’t see your color, I just see you.” I know white people who say that are meaning in their head to say “I like you. I’m for you. I feel we are friends.” I also now understand that can sound like “I don’t want to know about your blackness. I don’t want to take the time to understand why your skin color IS you. Can we sweep all of that under the rug and have a surface relationship?”
- As a white person…what can I do to help end racism?
- Systemic and institutional racism
- What each would like to see done in our community that can help ASAP.
- As a person in between gen Z and millennials, social media plays a huge role in communication political and social views. How can we best utilize social media platforms to support the black community and initiate conversation with those outside of it?
