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For POC to find justice from grade school to office, coalitions, sports, academia, in occupied territories and even as targets of death, it seems a prerequisite for basic rights is POC unpaid labor, career risk, and life risk to be therapists and consultants for everyone else.
Just sign up to @SURJNYC or find your local SURJ and do EVERYONE a favor and do your work. I'm just a few shades in in the free, unmitigated social and professional risk labor pool. I can't begin to imagine other daily experiences. showingupforracialjustice.org/surj-network.h…
Last night my close friend spent 7 hours of her Sunday away from her child in order to tend to her boss who was crying about how good of a person he is, even though his organization was exposed as having paid several young white men 40% more in salary than seasoned black PhDs.
In a meeting about violence towards Muslims, a leader put the weight on solving white supremacy of her community on to the Muslim victim of violence to solve.
In a project by a consultant to improve a fucking website, an American tech worker who is Sikh spent 30 hours on the website. Paid. And 40 hours putting out fires that led to an org crisis when the visual org chart looked like a pyramid with a white point and brown base. Unpaid.
When he mentioned it in a meeting, the person who designed it the draft and "doesn't ever see color" cried during the meeting and attacked him for putting her on the spot. He didn't. The entire office rushed to comfort her while the person here who was attacked was alone.
In another large org, some meta data about who is invited to meetings over 10 years leaked internally showed that a very diverse org, one of the most diverse in the country, statistically excluded people of the same status to meetings. With a direct relationship to skin color.
In a major Jewish publication, founded by progressive leftists, an editor is celebrated for publishing Jewish POC voices more than any other Jewish publication, while having published deeply racist and white supremacist pieces, including her own words w anti Muslim tropes.
During a Muslim organized vigil for the murder of Muslims, a Palestinian student was targeted because her questions to a wealthy white woman who without any self reflection finished vilifying a Black muslim woman, decided she can show up without being held accountable.
