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White Lies
White Lies: Nine Ways to Expose and Resist the Racial Systems That Divide Us | Daniel Hill
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What can you do to be a force for racial justice? Many White Christians are eager to fight against racism and for racial justice. But what steps can they take to make good, lasting change? How can they get involved without unintentionally doing more harm than good? In this practical and illuminating guide drawn from more than twenty years of cross-cultural work and learning from some of the greatest leaders of color, pastor and racial justice advocate Daniel Hill provides nine practices rooted in Scripture that will position you to be an active supporter of inclusion, equality, and racial justice. With stories, studies, and examples from his own journey, Hill will show you: How to get free of the impact of White supremacy individually and recognize that it works systemically How to talk about race in an intelligent and respectful way How to recognize which strategies are helpful and which are harmful What you can do to make a difference every day, after protests and major events We cannot experience wholistic justice without confronting and dismantling White supremacy. But as we follow Jesus--the one who is supreme over all things--into overturning false power systems, we will become better advocates of the liberating and unconditional love that God extends to us all.
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Moving on to diversity as an end goal rather than as a tool to end white supremacy: “Treating diversity as an end instead of a means to an end typically creates a significant chasm between the experience and attitude of the white stakeholders and the experience and attitude of the BIPOC stakeholders in that organization.” It‘s also important to note the burden that diversity places upon BIPOC to explain/teach white people about white supremacy.

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Love this bit about the dangers of wokeness. Hill suggests we move “from seeking to establish ourselves as experts to seeking a permanent posture of learning,” and isn‘t that a great lesson that‘s applicable to literally everything?

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Thanks to @LibrarianRyan for this one! I‘m honestly kind of shocked by how much this is resonating. This is billed as a Christian approach to dismantling White Supremacy, both in ourselves and in our world. As someone who is very much not a Christian (culturally Jewish, personally agnostic), I thought I would skim it and maybe find a few takeaways. Instead, it‘s providing some really helpful lenses through which to think about things, and I‘m…

Shmemilina Cont‘d: only in the first chapter! 3y
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