Don’t just be an ally in safe space. Don’t just hold the #BlackLivesMatter sign when it is safe. Hold the sign when bullets are flying over your head. Hold the sign when our children are dying from asthma and living in mold infested projects. Tell me a life matters when it costs you something. Don’t let my pain be your weekend excursion.
–Rev. Michael Walrond, pastor of First Corinthia Baptist Church in NY, quoted by Urban Cusp
Projects, Groups, Actions
Beyond Whiteness: This website is full of resources for antiracism and information about white privilege, racism, and more.
Catalyst Project, organizing antiracist whites
The Center for the Study of White American Culture and their blog on topics of whiteness
Community Change, Inc, Boston
The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper from the 1800s
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
** Donate to Black-Led Racial Justice Organizations, from SURJ
Traces of the Trade and The Tracing Center
The White Noise Collective is a collective of people dedicated to racial justice that explores how internalized sexism and heterosexism show up in the work of anti-racist activists, educators and allies.
Articles, Videos, Books, etc
9 Ways You Can Use Your White Privilege For Good, from MTV (of all places)
13 Resources for Teaching About White Privilege
16 Books About Race That Every White Person Should Read, from Huffington Post
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex, An Indigenous Perspective and Provocation, from Indigenous Action Media
– Stop Being An Ally, #AccomplicesNotAllies, a video from This Matters
Advice for white folks in the wake of the police murder of a black person, by Justin Cohen
Allies, The Time For Your Silence Has Expired, from SoulA Scriptura
Are You Racist? 28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors, from Odin’s B-Log
Can Master Syndrome be Undone? An Urgent Challenge for the Anti-Racist Movement by Maria Reinat-Pumarejo
Code of Ethics for Antiracist White Allies by JLove and Tim Wise
The Costs of Racism for White People by Paul Kivel
Dear White America by George Yancy at the New York Times
Emptying the White Knapsack, by Jaime Grant
How Racism Affects White Americans, by Dr. John H. Bracey Jr. from the Media Education Foundation
How To Overcome The Murderous Fear of White People by Zaron Burnett III at Human Parts
If You Have To Tell Your Kids This Stuff, Then You Probably Aren’t a White Person, a short video by Javon Johnson, from Button Poetry, on Upworthy
The Importance of Listening as a Privileged Person Fighting For Justice, by Jamie Utt
Jews in America Struggled to Become White. Now We Must Give Up Whiteness to Fight Racism, by Gil Steinlauf in the Washington Post
My Fellow White People, We Need To Talk, by Fog City John at the Daily Kos
Privilege 101: A Quick & Dirty Guide, by Sian Ferguson at Everyday Feminism
Dr. Robin DiAngelo:
– 11 Common Ways White Folks Avoid Taking Responsibility for Racism
– Deconstructing White Privilege, a video
– No I Won’t Stop Saying White Supremacy
– White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism
– White Women’s Tears & The Men Who Love Them
Shining The Light On White by Sharon Martinas
So You Call Yourself An Ally? 10 Things All “Allies” Need To Know by Jamie Utt
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America by Michael Eric Dyson
This is What White People Can Do to Support BlackLivesMatter, from the Washington Post
Toward An Abolitionist Feminism, by Zillah Eisenstein at Portside.
Ways White People Can Process Emotions Without Bringing On White Tears, by Jennifer Loubriel at Everyday Feminism
White Dude Gets Real About Racism, a video from comedian Louis C.K.
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
What Cultural Appropriation Is and Why You Should Care, by Shree Paradkar at The Star
What is Whiteness? by Nell Irvin Painter in the NY Times
What You Can Do Right Now About Police Brutality, by Ijeoma Oluo
What White America Fails To See, by Michael Eric Dyson in the New York Times
White Privilege Explained In Five Minutes, a video by ArchDuke
White Supremacy Culture, by Kenneth Jones & Tema Okun
Whites Only: SURJ And The Caucasian Invasion Of Racial Justice Spaces by Didi Delgado at The Establishment
Whites Who Are Scared They Will Be Called Racist, a video with Kathy Obear from Philippe After Hours
Whites Won’t Give Up on Racism by Scot Nakagawa at ChangeLab
You’ve Been Well Cared For by Betty Reid Mandell