Dr. Noelle Arnold welcoming us to this third installment of the #OSUDearWhitePeople series. Today's panelists are @DrAjWelton, @cheryl_phd, & Frank Tuitt and will discuss "Can you also be antiracist in educational spaces?"
An anti-racist standpoint involves an understanding of the history, pervasiveness, and endemic nature of racism in higher education and a deliberate rejection of color-evasive standpoints // Frank Tuitt #OSUDearWhitePeople
It's not enough to just say I am anti-racist. There must be evidence of it in your everyday actions and systemically within schools and institutions. // @DrAjWelton #OSUDearWhitePeople
Educators often work on anti-racism efforts in a piecemeal, one component at a time way; we must address systemic racism systemically - challenging intrapersonal, relational, institutional, and cultural norms simultaneously // @DrAjWelton #OSUDearWhitePeople
Good anti-racism work requires caring for Folks of Color; educators often spend a lot of time pouring into white folks in their anti-racist effors. // @DrAjWelton #OSUDearWhitePeople
We must invest in 4 kinds of change: 1) compositional diversity; 2) knowledge production for, by, about Black people; 3) infrastructure to help Black community members experience a sense of belonging; 4) unpacking policies and practices // Frank Tuitt #OSUDearWhitePeople
The honest truth is that we need to understand how whiteness pushes everyone into the periphery and that there will always exist those who benefit from whiteness // @cheryl_phd #OSUDearWhitePeople
We are moving from a post-racial discourse to a racial liberalism place that white emotionality is becoming the center of many conversations and this still, of course, centers whiteness! // @cheryl_phd #OSUDearWhitePeople
We are all complicit in systemic racism. There are ways we can mitigate the violence that occurs but we all participate in racist systems in the US and globally // Frank Tuitt #OSUDearWhitePeople
These phrases of "I can't be racist" or "I shouldn't be blamed for my ancestors" centers the emotionality of whiteness, which encompasses all the emotions one feels to exert the hegemonic nature of whiteness. // @cheryl_phd #OSUDearWhitePeople
The implementation of Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) role must be examined critically; these individuals by themselves will not dismantle anti-Blackness without careful attention to how those roles are structured // Frank Tuitt #OSUDearWhitePeople
How are you talking to your cousin off Facebook? What relationships are you putting on the line without centering white emotionality in anti-racist work? // @cheryl_phd #OSUDearWhitePeople
Stop performing to whiteness and you will be liberated. // @cheryl_phd #OSUDearWhitePeople
An anti-racist resolve is a constant commitment to do the work and not capitulate to whiteness; white folks are conditioned to protect individual privilege and whiteness broadly so think through decisions and what their actual effects might be // @DrAjWelton #OSUDearWhitePeople
The white folks who have shown up for the Movement for Black Lives have done their own self-work before showing up, put their bodies and material resources on the line, and more! // Frank Tuitt #OSUDearWhitePeople
The playbook is there. The writing and texts to reflect on race, to plan for meaningful change, to think through race in your context - it's out there. Go find it! // @DrAjWelton #OSUDearWhitePeople
C*nd*ce Ow*ns is not a counter-story. Counterstories are *counter* to the dominant narrative and discourse // @cheryl_phd #OSUDearWhitePeople
White saviors don't even know what they are saving. // @cheryl_phd #OSUDearWhitePeople
