Holding good ideas up to the light
The connection between Trump’s and Fox News pundits’ hate-filled rhetoric against Latinx immigrants and the recent devastating domestic terrorist attacks that killed or injured more than 100 people, is undeniable. And it has led to nearly one in five people in the country – …
[Read more...] about Hateful Rhetoric Kills, But So Does White Silence and Willful Ignorance
On the afternoon of May 29th, Starbucks will close approximately 8,000 stores for a training on racial bias. The truth is that it’s hard for many of us who are white to grasp just how deeply steeped in racism we all are, which means sometimes we don’t know where to start, or …
When organizations are trying to figure out how to move from being passively non-racist to actively anti-racist, one of the things that they often say they will do is “center people of color.” As communicators, we need to be able to unpack jargon and help people take action. We …
Two days after Donald Trump won the electoral vote, I found myself in a room with hundreds of government and nonprofit professionals who, like me, were horrified by the frequent racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic slurs and threats spoken by this president-elect – and the …
[Read more...] about How to Advance Racial Equity During A Trump presidency? Go Local.
This election season, our country seemed to disagree about every issue except one: this campaign has been ugly, and it can’t end soon enough. Although the campaign rhetoric has likely affected you differently depending on who you are, the tenor and content of the campaign has …
[Read more...] about When the Election Ends, What Conversations Can We Start?
