What is White Supremacy
Let’s Talk About Anti-Semitism and White Supremacy
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We are not helpless. There are things we can do to improve our world.
After the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, I wrote about five things you could do to help. Painfully, they are all still very relevant.
In the face of the unabated, preventable epidemic of gun violence, urge your Senators to cosponsor and call for the immediate passage of the Background Check Expansion Act, the Senate version of the first gun violence prevention measure to pass the House of Representatives in decades. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is not going to bring this bill to a vote unless we make him.
Teach yourself or seek out conversations about implicit bias. None of us are perfect (especially me), and to overturn a millennia-old system like white supremacy, we're each going to have to do internal and external work.
Ask yourself: what are you afraid of? How does that fear affect your behaviour? What could you do to address it? How could you be better? How could we all be better?
I'm game if you are.
For an excellent resource on anti-Semitism, read "Understanding Anti-Semitism" from Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.