This is the 13th & final day of Jones & Okun’s “Characteristics of #WhiteSupremacyCulture”.

Today’s characteristic is “Progress is Bigger, More”.

It is “observed in systems of accountability and ways we determine success”.

“Progess is Bigger, More”

“ progress is an organization which expands (adds staff, adds projects) or develops the ability to serve more people (regardless of how well they are serving them)”/2

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“Progess is Bigger, More”

“ gives no value, not even negative value, to its cost, for example, increased
accountability to funders as the budget grows, ways in which those we serve may be exploited, excluded, or underserved as we focus on how many we are serving...”/3

“... instead of quality of service or values created by the ways in which we serve”/4

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Antidotes to “Progress is Bigger, More”

“ create Seventh Generation thinking by asking how the actions of the group now will affect people seven generations from now”/5

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Antidotes to “Progress is Bigger, More”

“make sure that any cost/benefit analysis includes all the costs, not just the financial ones, for example the cost in morale, the cost in credibility, the cost in the use of resources”/6

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Antidotes to “Progress is Bigger, More”

“ include process goals in your planning, for example make sure that your goals speak to how you want to do your work, not just what you want to do”/7

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Antidotes to “Progress is Bigger, More”

“ ask those you work with and for to evaluate your performance”/8

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The complete list of Jones & Okun’s “Characteristics of #WhiteSupremacyCulture” can be found here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html

Hopefully, for those who were unfamiliar, you are now seeing these characteristics everywhere & thinking deeply about the antidotes./END