Following the latest, in a seemingly endless wave of, police killings of people of color, there has been a consistent ask from those most affected by racist state violence: "white people need to step up in the fight against racial injustice."
It is not sufficient for white people to simply not be racist. We need to be actively anti-racist. Silence is violence and the burden of resisting systems of oppression should not fall solely, or disproportionately, on those who suffer from them.
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Following the latest, in a seemingly endless wave of, police killings of people of color, there has been a consistent ask from those most affected by racist state violence: "white people need to step up in the fight against racial injustice."
It is not sufficient for white people to simply not be racist. We need to be actively anti-racist. Silence is violence and the burden of resisting systems of oppression should not fall solely, or disproportionately, on those who suffer from them.
As Rosa Clemente recently put it: "Fuck a white ally, I need a white accomplice, freedom fighter, revolutionary on our sides. The march I want to see go down: white folks marching on every damn police station in this country and shutting it down, filling up the jails, stopping the flow of traffic and disrupting commerce. It's not like we won't be out there, we always are, but can you all really step up in ways you have never imagined and take arrests, hits and blows, we need a rest."
This resonated deepy for many of us and we see starting a Capital District chapter of Standing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) as one potential outlet for doing so.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A GENERAL INTEREST MEETING ON TUES, JULY 26TH, @ 6PM AT THE SJC TO DISCUSS HOW WE, AS WHITE ACCOMPLICES, CAN STEP UP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY.