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beandelphikiJust a few minutes ago, I re-read the opening paragraph on the info page for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
debunkingwhite:
This community is a place where people who are active in anti-racism communities can share in our struggles against internalized relations of dominance/subordination / superiority/inferiority and look for ways to move beyond these. Unlike many approaches to anti-racism communtities, this one will not focus solely on the "Other," while leaving whiteness invisible and unchallenged. For white members, this will require a willingness to look at ourselves and our often unconscious investment in the systems of white supremacy. This effort is undertaken in the belief that widespread anti-racist social change will not occur until white people are willing to turn a reflexive, self-critical eye upon ourselves and the unearned privileges we receive (and/or perform upon others) on a daily basis. For People of Color, as well as for whites, I hope that this community can become a resource for allies, bridge-building, and the special quality known as "tough love," in which we push each other toward being better people, better community members and better activists.
When I read that first several months ago, it literally didn't make sense to me, not at all. It could have been written in Cantonese, for all I understood it.
Now it makes some sense.
Our biology teacher sprang a sheep brain dissection on us today. I think she purposely didn't let us know we were going to be doing it ahead of time so that no one could duck out. Ugh, my nose aches from the chemicals.
But at least dissections are never as bad as I think they're going to be. In fact, the dissections I've done up to this point turned out pretty interesting, once I got over the stench and all - but the cow's eye was a lot cooler than a sheep's brain. Which just looks like a bunch of yellow-grey gunk when you cut it up.
If you haven't had a chance to cut up a cow's eye, by the way, it's a shiny metallic bright blue at the back. I thought that was so amazing, as I suppose I'd been operating on the assumption that that particular color is man-made. Apparently not.
debunkingwhite:This community is a place where people who are active in anti-racism communities can share in our struggles against internalized relations of dominance/subordination / superiority/inferiority and look for ways to move beyond these. Unlike many approaches to anti-racism communtities, this one will not focus solely on the "Other," while leaving whiteness invisible and unchallenged. For white members, this will require a willingness to look at ourselves and our often unconscious investment in the systems of white supremacy. This effort is undertaken in the belief that widespread anti-racist social change will not occur until white people are willing to turn a reflexive, self-critical eye upon ourselves and the unearned privileges we receive (and/or perform upon others) on a daily basis. For People of Color, as well as for whites, I hope that this community can become a resource for allies, bridge-building, and the special quality known as "tough love," in which we push each other toward being better people, better community members and better activists.
When I read that first several months ago, it literally didn't make sense to me, not at all. It could have been written in Cantonese, for all I understood it.
Now it makes some sense.
Our biology teacher sprang a sheep brain dissection on us today. I think she purposely didn't let us know we were going to be doing it ahead of time so that no one could duck out. Ugh, my nose aches from the chemicals.
But at least dissections are never as bad as I think they're going to be. In fact, the dissections I've done up to this point turned out pretty interesting, once I got over the stench and all - but the cow's eye was a lot cooler than a sheep's brain. Which just looks like a bunch of yellow-grey gunk when you cut it up.
If you haven't had a chance to cut up a cow's eye, by the way, it's a shiny metallic bright blue at the back. I thought that was so amazing, as I suppose I'd been operating on the assumption that that particular color is man-made. Apparently not.
