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July 5, 2020

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Guest Post: My Apology for My Complicity

by Monika Crowfoot First of all, I want to apologize. I want to apologize for my complicity and support of a religious institution that was inherently racist, oppressive, and prejudiced. And to do my part in honoring Juneteenth, not just today but everyday, we are dismantling white supremacist systems in our home. I grew up Mormon. My culture was Mormon. I did not speak my language because my parents feared I would have an accent. They were beaten in government boarding schools for speaking their language. With every whip and every pounding fist, their culture died. My mother went on the Indian...

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Wendy

July 2, 2020

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Surviving Coronavirus While White: Systemic Racism & A Call to Action...

My Story It was the last day of March this year. My family and I had been in lockdown for the better half of a month, the beginning of which had been self-imposed. Masks were not yet required or even recommended, except for medical professionals. I had hardly left my two-bedroom apartment in New York City for over two weeks. And when I did, it was to get my two small daughters some outdoor time in a city park where we stayed at least six feet away from other cooped-up city-dwellers trying to get some fresh air. Admittedly, keeping a...

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June 19, 2020

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To the White Folks Asking “What Can I Do?”

As we have seen recently and throughout hundreds of years of human history, white supremacy and racism cause unspeakable harm and injury to our BIPOC siblings. White supremacy is both institutional and embedded into the framework of systems AND personal and engrained in our individual ways of thinking and moving in the world. It is manifest from the policies and practices held at the macro levels of structures all the way to aggressions and prejudice at the micro levels between individuals. Breaking down this oppressive system is the moral imperative of everyone who believes in equality and fights for...

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