And this is where I step back and look at people and say, "And why the hell haven't you gotten around to educating yourself around this?"
There is plenty of offline information if you want to educate yourself about racism/anti-racism/bias. Groups where you can plug in and find out what you want/need to know. People can go ahead and start their own groups, their own efforts. I'm explicitly thinking of organizations like The Working Group and their Not in Our Town campaign - they have a list of resources for starting your own work here (http://www.theworkinggroup.org/niotresources.html).
Have I answered a myriad of questions about being Black? Yes. About being a lesbian? Yes. How those two things intersect? Yes. My experience of racism and it's effects are different from my father's, my mother's, my grand parents just as they are different from another Black person who lives, say, in the UK, Canada, or Africa. Sometimes they're similar.
At some point, though, I have to step back from certain people and say, "You are on your own. I've given you a book list, I want you to read it and then get back to me." Folks have to start to do their own heavy lifting. A lot of the rage and anger you're picking up comes from posters having to do way to much of it over and over again.
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Date: 2009-03-12 01:26 am (UTC)And this is where I step back and look at people and say, "And why the hell haven't you gotten around to educating yourself around this?"
There is plenty of offline information if you want to educate yourself about racism/anti-racism/bias. Groups where you can plug in and find out what you want/need to know. People can go ahead and start their own groups, their own efforts. I'm explicitly thinking of organizations like The Working Group and their Not in Our Town campaign - they have a list of resources for starting your own work here (http://www.theworkinggroup.org/niotresources.html).
Have I answered a myriad of questions about being Black? Yes. About being a lesbian? Yes. How those two things intersect? Yes. My experience of racism and it's effects are different from my father's, my mother's, my grand parents just as they are different from another Black person who lives, say, in the UK, Canada, or Africa. Sometimes they're similar.
At some point, though, I have to step back from certain people and say, "You are on your own. I've given you a book list, I want you to read it and then get back to me." Folks have to start to do their own heavy lifting. A lot of the rage and anger you're picking up comes from posters having to do way to much of it over and over again.