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#Juneteenth

By Malaika Aaron-Bishop

Two marches. Two rallies. One drum circle.

A Black woman in a white, lace frock with long diaphanous sleeves carries a megaphone. The dress is at once delicate and commanding. Impractical? Maybe. But still deeply appropriate. She paces, making eye contact with each person and bellows with the ease of any general: "We are crying out as mothers and grandmothers saying... we shall not be stopped, Amen!?"
Crowd: "Amen!"
Woman: "Alright! Forward ever! Backward never!"

Dismantling oppressionMalaika Aaron-BishopJune 21, 2020#juneteenth, #blacklivesmatter, #malaikawrites, #georgefloydprotests

Lowering the cost of speaking up

One of the things I've realized that I can do as a DEI consultant, along with my team at Co-Creating Inclusion, is to lower the cost of speaking up.

And now what we're seeing across the country and even across the world, despite my misgivings about a "woke wave", is a systemic and cultural lowering of the cost of speaking up.

Co-creating inclusionAlethea FitzpatrickJune 14, 2020#organizationalchange, #protests, #DEIforthelonghaul, #qualitativedata, #wokewave, #georgefloydprotests

On the "woke wave" and how I don't have the inside track on the right way to do things

How I'm shoring up my boundaries so I don't get drowned by the "woke wave' and how I have to remind myself that I don't have the inside track on the right way to do things.

Dismantling oppressionAlethea FitzpatrickJune 7, 2020#protests, #characteristicsofwhitesupremacyculture, #systemsofoppression, #georgefloydprotests

Screaming into the wind

BLACK LIVES MATTER

We say this because the US was founded on the principle that they didn't, and that principle is still at the bedrock of every institution today.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Ahmaud Arbery. And all the countless others, these only being the latest.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Dismantling oppressionAlethea FitzpatrickJune 1, 2020#blacklivesmatter, #protests, #screamingintothewind, #seeingwhite, #whitefragility, #howtobeanatiracist, #natives, #characteristicsofwhitesupremacyculture, #georgefloydprotests, #jamesbaldwin, #paolofriere, #violence

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