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What is practically needed right now is white people training themselves on the following issues so they can deliver antiracist programs to NZ private and public sector:
Tiriti o Waitangi, AND
Racism and privilege AND
Imperialism
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Tiriti o Waitangi, ANDRacism and privilege AND Imperialism...
That is of course for an NZ context but EVERY country that has been colonized need to ground their antiracism program in it's own history of colonial racism and dispossession as the foundation for their national history of racism...
and that can be powerfully coupled with an understanding of how racism works/has worked in a global context too (ie how racism/imperialism has displaced people around the world and how does it continue to do so).
4 step process:
Training on definition & id'ing of institutionalised racism for leadership.
Organisational assessment
Build a suite of antiracist policies for your organisation
Transparently measure your progress over time across an agreed set of antiracist outcomes.
Training on definition & id'ing of institutionalised racism for leadership. Organisational assessment Build a suite of antiracist policies for your organisation Transparently measure your progress over time across an agreed set of antiracist outcomes.
Allies marching on the streets is AWESOME but things won't change til policy changes and when I look around there are SO FEW pakeha doing the heavy lifting in training and antiracist policy development space.
This ain't just our (POC) problem to fix in fact when we spend all of our time doing that it's time spent away from us just working on thriving so the burden of responding to racism is a whole nother layer of negative racist impacts for POC.
Quality antiracism education is also more effective when delivered by white people, bc racism in the form of unconscious bias means POC presenters on racism are less likely to be believed/respected in the first instance which hinders the crucial first steps of the above process.
So THANKYOU for the solidarity on the streets & social media now pls can we have some more of you for the LONG YARDS of practical change, bc there are a lot of orgs looking to better themselves right now and only a few of us equipped to guide that process (and even fewer white).
