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Erin Heaney, national organizer for SURJ (an anti-racist organization) has wisdom for this morning:
"White folks - you're probably waking up this morning, turning on the news, full of rage. The urge to call other white people out today is going to be overwhelming. 1/
"White folks - you're probably waking up this morning, turning on the news, full of rage. The urge to call other white people out today is going to be overwhelming. 1/
Heaney continues, "Please do not spend your precious energy doing that. Our enemies are not other individual white people. Yes, white people are racist. AND our enemy is racialized capitalism and white supremacy. 2/
Erin Heaney: "We have been asked to build a base that can actually flex enough power to defund the police, to stop the fascist in the White House from getting re-elected, and to transform our economic system to one that doesn't exploit and kill poor and working people. 3/
Heaney: "Today, let us turn our rage upward to those in power and let us take action today that moves us closer to the visionary demands declared by those on the frontlines. Let us move resources to people supporting uprisings. 4/
Heaney: "Let us spend one of our most precious resources, time, bringing in the 1000s of people who are coming into consciousness in this moment, messy are they are. Let us be strategic and rigorous. There's too much at stake to spend our time performing and not organizing.” 5/
all right, white anti-racist twitter - beyond performance, what can we/you/i do *today* *right now* to counter the violence of patriarchal white supremacy? what phone call can i make? where can i place my body? what peace can i breathe? 6/
what black and immigrant owned business can i support? what books can i buy, read, and share? what syllabi of my own can i decolonize? what can i tell my white cis male child about his privilege? how can i parent for anti-racism? how can i partner for anti-patriarchy? 7/
this is my/our job right now. to do more than perform - to do what we are able - to ask good questions and act on the information we receive - to dismantle violent power done in our names & against our bodies - to stand in real solidarity. it's 8am in the midwest. its time.
