Soooooo much #whitefragility #whiteurgency #whiteexpediency Some have heard of #whitefragility.... let’s learn about white expediency ...1/
White expediency is the quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral, resulting in differential risks, barriers, burdens, and benefits. Now what is white urgency... 3/
White urgency is the quality of being important that requires swift action that advantages white people and those proximal to whiteness while simultaneously disadvantaging and harming Black people and those amplifying Blackness. Now what happens when you combine WF+WE+WU 4/
Cultural arrogance, philanthropic redlining, & comm harm create a toxic stew of assumptions that shape research questions & research agendas. This stew feeds 3 common misconceptions based on a hierarchy of knowledge construction & innovation.... (keep going) 5/
that devalues the expertise of Black/Queer/BIPOC birthing people and the scholarship of Black women/Queer/BIPOC scholars. Thank you @HealthEquityJrl ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… /ONLY THE BEGINNING 👊🏽✊🏽🙅🏾♀️
