What Should White People Do?

update: our next call series will be announced as soon as we meet our threshoold of interested participants.

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We are launching our 3rd Round of “What Should White People Do?” 

The 4-week class is our effort to meet this moment of uprising and transformation. The first two rounds were a resounding success. And we are pleased to announce that we are doing it again.

Our next open session will be announced once we reach our threshold of interest. It will take place on four consecutive Thursdays, from 8pm-9:30pm EST.

Does your org need this work?

We now offer this class to organizations and collaborative formations. Please write us here if you are interested in bringing this work to your organization.

We are hosting four sessions for white people who are active or aspiring anti-racists.  We will learn, connect and commit to a life of action. 

The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

Here is the arc of our inquiry:

  • Understand that this is your life
    (it’s not a moment or a stage)

  • Learn to Hold
    (yourself and others, a diversity of others)

  • See it, Name it, Change it

  • Show Up & Keep Going

Please do share this link with people who are interested in doing the work.

Our original invitation is below.

And here is our list of things white people should do right now:

  1. Understand that anti-blackness is systemic. It defines whiteness.  You were born into it. Learn, learn and keep on learning.

  2. Listen to what black people are saying (and don’t expect all black people to say the same thing!)

  3. Talk to other white people (don’t become intolerable)

  4. Find out what your black friends need

  5. Commit (don’t collapse, and don’t self-flagellate either)

  6. Move Your Money (consider giving to “Hood Healing,” this is deep, transformative work for people of color that the two of us are facilitating)

  7. Share Your Connections (there is wealth in networks)

Racism is a white problem. It was heartening to see so many white people take part in the uprising. It is good to see people wake up. Want to learn. Stand in solidarity. And take responsibility.

We are here to help.

We have long been frustrated with the tenor of the racial justice conversation. As facilitators, we are painfully familiar with the places where it always gets stuck. 

We are here to try something else. Something different. More open. More likely to move. 

  • What would it look like to have this conversation from a place of wholeness?

  • Can we take radical responsibility without so much blame and shame?

  • Can we be more open and less self-righteous?

  • Can we turn towards the hard parts without freezing, hiding or falling apart?

  • How much more compassion can we bring to this space?

  • How do we make room for not knowing?

Our class is not for you if you have been in the conversation for a long time. If you are very familiar with anti-racist work. But take a moment to consider the people you know. The ones who are paying attention. The folks who want to do something. And want to learn. 

Send them our way.

Our commitment is to steward a conversation that will be challenging. At times devastating. And to do so with great compassion, clarity and care. 

We want to catalyze action.

We want to move towards wholeness, healing and atonement.

This is work of the heart.

And this is the time.