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These are worthy of printing and daily contemplation, even if only one item a day.
Baby steps are still progress.......
Karadeniz
(22,279 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)did a search to find downloadable graphics and found the second one.
Also discovered that many schools use those to teach diversity and equality.
Form a class description I found from the Salisbury University in Maryland:
In a pyramid, every brick depends upon the one below it for support, an accompanying caption explains. If the bricks at the bottom are removed, the whole structure comes tumbling down.
Things like avoiding confrontation with racist family members, remaining apolitical, or saying politics doesnt affect me make up the base of the Pyramid of White Supremacy, directly underneath forms of minimization such as denial of white privilege and not believing experiences of POC [people of color].
The next level up is veiled racism, which the graphic defines to include cultural appropriation and a Euro-centric curriculum.
Worse still, according to the pyramid, are anti-immigration policies, stop and frisk policing strategies, and funding schools locally, all of which fall under the category of discrimination.
As we might expect, right-wing student groups get a big butt hurt over these studies.......
Amishman
(5,541 posts)White supremacy is the believe that whites are better than others races. That is the definition.
There are numerous points on those charts that do not match that definition or even run opposite to it.
Colorblindness is a good example. It is not a white supremacist concept and it's definition is incompatible with the definition of white supremacy. "a color blind society is one where racial classification does not limit a person's opportunities." Remaining Apolitical is another glaring example.
Words have meanings and definitions. In those charts are defining the degrees of not being a progressive on racial issues, not what is white supremacy. They overreached and outstepped the literal core definition.
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)If dictionary definitions is the hill you make your stand on, thats your business, I guess.
White supremacy is a world white social construct due to colonialism. Colorblindness as a concept, is a reaction in the first place to racism.
burrowowl
(17,606 posts)murielm99
(30,656 posts)BlPOC? I would like know before I print this. And thank you for posting!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)I believe AAVE is African-American Vernacular English.....
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English
and BLPOC is Black People of Color.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.......
And you're welcome! I feel simple awareness is a powerful tool for self-improvement in many areas of human troubles. Tools like these help to keep the awareness square in my face.