In reading Us and Them: What it Really Means to Belong, a story shared by my sister-friend Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC about confronting Anti-Black Racism in the charitable sector, the following verse from my contribution to Collecting Courage seems apply to the situation she encountered:
‘tis Pain & Hurt
Break
A reckoning well overdue…now’s the time for heeding advice.
Truth be told, ‘The System’ impotent can do no harm or deliver blows
Without its enablers, defenders and those in comfort of complacency’s arms,
‘Cause as surely as it hurts ‘Others’ it’s bamboozled self-anointed ‘Belongers’
planting seeds of hatred sprouting white superiority
instead of seeds of equity and our shared humanity. Oppression and
exploitation doesn’t have to be our final destination.
My dear sister-friend @Nneka, you are fierce and “brilliantly bold” and I admire how consistently and passionately you bring your values to life – within your family, in relationships you build and nurture, your work in serving others – as manifested through your actions, approaches and behaviours. I applaud you for sharing your truth and bringing this story to light. It carries an important message worth sharing.
“systemic racism is the foundation on which our society is built. To carry on with no active interruption of that system is to be complicit with it. This means that if you’re not actively doing anything to dismantle racism besides being nice, you are complicit in the ideology’s existence. There is no neutral territory with racism; you’re either taking it apart or you’re reinforcing it.” – Shereen Daniels, The Anti-Racist Organization…Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace
I support and walk beside you as you illuminate your truths.
In Solidarity!
Read Us Them: What it Really Means to Belong
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Mide Akerewusi, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Econ), CSR-P, CDEP. Múthoní Karíukí HBSc, MPNL, CFRE, Birgit Smith Burton Christal M. Cherry, Camila Pereira, PhD, Destiny Allen-Green, MLWS, BSc., Skylar Chauvin, Nicole Jamrozinski, Elizabeth LeClair, Rickesh Lakhani, Cathy Barrick (she/her/hers),Stephen Hinds, MA, CPHR, CHRL, ACC, Esther Saehyun Lee, MA, Mazarine Treyz, Scott Russell, Dr. Julie Berthoud-Jury, CFREActivate to view larger image,
