Candice
White woman, mid 20's. Loquacious, intellectually curious, and uncensored in her ideas. Can be misinterpreted as insensitive but likely unaware. Emotionally free and open. Student and Assistant to Sandra.
Candice
S5/P29
"I know I can't complain about anything anymore because, well I'm white. So there's that."
Dr. Yaba Blay
Dr. Bay talks about how US culture has been socialized to see white women as fully human in direct proportion to the ways that we see Black women as less than human.
Accomplice Vs Ally
With today’s episode of We Can Do Hard Things, we have the honor of listening to the teacher, author, activist, and cultural-creative Dr. Yaba Blay with openness, humility, groundedness, curiosity, and love.
by DAVID GREENE
image by BISA BUTLER
"White tears, it's a phrase that's used to gently tease white people who get upset at things they think threaten their white privilege. It's been used to poke fun at white people who think Barack Obama marked the end of America, who freaked out when the biracial actress Meghan Markle became a British royal, who can't stand it when a formerly white character is portrayed by a person of color."
-Greene
Candice & Sandra
S5/P48
CANDICE Maybe they just wanted you to see an image of how things used to be to like remind you of...
SANDRA My place?
A Quick Word About Allies/About the “Good Folks”
from TikTok Scholar T.Moneé
"We are well past the point of reform. Most of the institutions in this country need to be abolished."
A. Wambach steps up to step aside so Dr. Yaba Blay can speak truth
"Stop tip toeing around the conversation. Open your eyes to white supremacy. Have uncomfortable conversations to fully investing yourself in understanding white supremacy."
A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
"In 2011, DiAngelo coined the term “white fragility” to describe the disbelieving defensiveness that white people exhibit when their ideas about race and racism are challenged—and particularly when they feel implicated in white supremacy. Why, she wondered, did her feedback prompt such resistance, as if the mention of racism were more offensive than the fact or practice of it?"
-Waldman
“One of the things that has worked throughout American history is finding a way to project whiteness in need of defense or protection.”
Dr. André Brock, associate professor of Black digital culture at Georgia Tech
"As I look back over my adult life a pattern emerges. Often, when I have attempted to speak to or confront a white woman about something she has said or done that has impacted me adversely, I am met with tearful denials and indignant accusations that I am hurting her. My confidence diminished and second-guessing myself, I either flare up in frustration at not being heard (which only seems to prove her point) or I back down immediately, apologising and consoling the very person causing me harm."
How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour.
by Ruby Hamad
image by Bisa Butler
"That the voices of “women of colour” are getting louder and more influential is a testament less to the accommodations made by the dominant white culture and more to their own grit in a society that implicitly – and sometimes explicitly – wants them to fail."
-Hamad
Candice
S5/P37
CANDICE now I’m working like a slave - no offense…
How the 'Karen Meme' Confronts the Violent History of White Womanhood
by Cady Lang
“These memes are actually doing logical and political work of helping us get to legal changes or legislative changes, which is really something to be said,” says Williams. “While of course, they aren’t a standalone movement on their own, they actively call out white supremacy and call for restitution. They really do that work of highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.”
-Lang
How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror
There are too many noosed necks, charred bodies and drowned souls for these white women not to know precisely what they are doing: They are using their white femininity as an instrument of terror against black men.
-By Blow