A Back Story: Accountability, Oppression, and Internal Conflict
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After the death of George Floyd, I (along with the rest of the world) was plunged into the world of the BLM movement. As a white person, I had so much to learn and devoured content on social media platforms, taking courses from black women, and discussing topics with my family and friends like white fragility, colonialism, oppression, and colour blindness. What I heard from these educators was that we could no longer shirk off responsibility and needed to be held accountable for our socially ingrained racism and ways that we contributed to system oppression. This resonated with me; having recently left environmental movements for what I felt was a lack of real intersectional understanding of issues and the unwillingness to call out people for injustice for fear of excluding them and making them uncomfortable. Finally someone was telling me that I
A Back Story: Accountability, Oppression, and Internal Conflict
A Back Story: Accountability, Oppression, and…
A Back Story: Accountability, Oppression, and Internal Conflict
After the death of George Floyd, I (along with the rest of the world) was plunged into the world of the BLM movement. As a white person, I had so much to learn and devoured content on social media platforms, taking courses from black women, and discussing topics with my family and friends like white fragility, colonialism, oppression, and colour blindness. What I heard from these educators was that we could no longer shirk off responsibility and needed to be held accountable for our socially ingrained racism and ways that we contributed to system oppression. This resonated with me; having recently left environmental movements for what I felt was a lack of real intersectional understanding of issues and the unwillingness to call out people for injustice for fear of excluding them and making them uncomfortable. Finally someone was telling me that I