{"id":16279,"date":"2009-03-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2009-03-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T18:00:00","slug":"we-don%e2%80%99t-need-another-anti-racism-101-3-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16279","title":{"rendered":"we don\u2019t need another anti-racism 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mai <a href=\"http:\/\/guerrillamamamedicine.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/17\/we-dont-need-another-anti-racism-101\/\" >blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>i used to be an antiracism trainer for a progressive organization a few years ago.\u00a0 i was really really good at.<\/p>\n<p>this year i finally realized after a lot of soul searching that teaching white folks how to be good allies is not helpful to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>its like us giving white folks all the correct rhetoric just allows for them to be able to better racists, because they are able to justify their racism using anti-racist rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>in that they are able to say things like: i realize that such and such is a function of racism and then they continue to do the same fucking thing that they just acknowledged was racist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/restructure.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/30\/why-i-dislike-a-particular-white-antiracist-blogger\/\" >Restructure<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/898\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/898\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=743885&#038;%23038;post=898&#038;%23038;subd=blogbullet&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mai blogs: i used to be an antiracism trainer for a progressive organization a few years ago.\u00a0 i was really really good at. this year i finally realized after a lot of soul searching that teaching white folks how to be good allies is not helpful to anyone. &#8230; its like us giving white folks [&#8230;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=898&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17621,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions\/17621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}