Anti-Racism for the Long Haul: Here’s Where to Start
Train for the long game.
People asked that you listen, learn, speak and help—but no one said to do it all by Friday. When you train for a marathon, you don’t tackle 26.2 right out of the gate. You build your ability week after week, mile by mile, with consistency prioritized over intensity. So let’s keep one foot in front of the other and just do something every week that enhances our understanding—of ourselves, of others, of issues, of history, of systemic inequality and racism. Need a place to start?
This Unlocking Us podcast episode had Brené Brown learning and listening like the rest of us. Ibram X. Kendi’s incisive descriptives had us rewinding, relistening and relearning.
It took Netflix’s Explained roughly 16 minutes to school us on The Racial Wealth Gap, without ever dumbing it down.
HBO’s King in The Wilderness explores the new challenges that confronted Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement post-1965. History has a way of compressing time and reducing things to their most basic, but this documentary keeps things nuanced.