Black Lives Matter
- Kseniia Bimbashi
- Jun 9, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 9, 2020
I'm posting Amber's email and links from our members responses. Thank you all for participation!
Amber:
BOSLadies,
I wanted this letter to be about the Black Lives Matter protests but wasn't sure what to say, especially as a white middle class female. The more that I see about Black Lives Matter, the more I realize that I don't really understand what is being protested. BOSLady is a book club that formed to support one another as women in business, primarily doing this through the sharing of information and experiences. By learning, we became empowered. Systemic racism is the evil that is being protested and I'm ignorant of how that actually manifests and what my own implicit biases are. Learning feels like the essential first step of an ally and it makes sense to me that BOSLady should have a dialogue about this. Below are a handful of resources I've been seeing and wanted to start off with. Please share any others that you may have or any thoughts, ideas or experiences of importance to you.
Links:
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 13th (on Netflix) Harvard's Implicit Bias test
“So you want to talk about race”- Ijeoma Oluo
“White Fragility- Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism”- Robin Diangelo
Here’s an article for parents.
This amazing author talk. The first part is for kids/teens and the second is for parents.
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