And I would read so many books and just not feel seen and heard. He was pulled out of the house. That was my thing. And then they call it progress when we have to move somewhere else. We continuously look at this dialogue; even treating the Trump election like it was about the economy and not about white identity is a gateway into this. And that’s something that I think that white audiences need to look at, how comfortable they’re expecting to be when they pick up a piece of work and why they haven’t been making best-sellers of the black writers and writers of color who have been writing this stuff down for multiple generations. That is a loss. And I wanted other people to feel seen and heard. Right? It needs to be informed by people of color and centering the needs of people of color. Two strangers start out saving animals and end up rescuing each other in this heartwarming romance from the author of Unbreak Me. We’re not going to kick someone out just because they’re part of a white supremacist group.’ That is where this is given room to breathe and grow. And it was just lovely and wonderful. In the book, the reason I write about it so much is a) it was so crucial to why it came to writing. And the reason why I bring it up is because it’s in the chapter where Ijeoma talks about cultural appropriation and she opened it in a discussion. But no, it’s a really, really, really significant achievement. But when actors took the prominent women activists who fight sexual misconduct in an array of industries to the Golden Globe Awards ceremony Sunday night, the stars helped raise the curtain on these campaigners and, to a limited extent, and then left the stage altogether. We need to start looking at it as a real cancer and start actively rooting it out and preventing these safe spaces for it to grow. I want to first bring out that, when we were in the back, Ijeoma informed me that the paperback that she’s now promoting is number 7—, CM (1:43): Four—sorry—four on the bestseller list today. That was a great experience. People can have really important contributions to whiteness studies; people have, white people have. And I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t doing anything to contribute to that. Nobody would get—yeah.’. And we just keep moving and we can’t put down roots and we are robbed of community security, intergenerational wealth, opportunity. And we still have a huge segments of the population that are like, ‘People are buying steaks with their welfare checks,’ you know? ", Oluo closed the piece with the following questions: "How often are we manipulated into prioritizing the abuser over the abused? It’s just so dehumanizing. I wanted them to find little bits in these day-to-day interactions and know that at least it’s worth being put down on paper, it’s worth being moralized. In a time when words are misused then rendered meaningless, while the actual painful condition and systems we need to address persist and grow and worsen, Oluo offers us a reset, a starting point, a clear way forward. And here it is. I think it’s really important to recognize that as parents of any race, if you’re not bringing up issues of systemic racism in schools, you are letting your children down. Want to avoid spoiling last night's episode of Game of Thrones? And what will happen then is it becomes, everything starts looking like Kirkland. JP (1:36:08): Thank you for listening to our Town Hall Seattle civic series. And that is because we continuously look at these gateways as not a real threat. I was kind of like, you know, why you wouldn’t do that? Town Hall's admin offices will be closed on Dec 25, 26 & 27 and Jan 1. And working with Charles the director was a riot. And you’re like, ‘This is crazy.’, CM (10:30): And we accept it and nobody’s done anything about it. Oluo is one of the less visible voices in #MeToo, but a deeply important one. You get to build this whole identity and imagine yourself this crusader, because you’ve never had to do anything. So we’ll see how that goes. And luckily he was. But yeah, it was so funny cause legally, of course—before this was all very, very public—you just couldn’t put a name in there and it was so frustrating. His public account of the abuse he suffered on Twitter was just a launching point. And I keep envisioning it over and over and over and over: sitting there in your home and a white woman bursts in and shoots you in the chest. You need to get together and figure out, if you honestly think Black lives matter, how much? Like, ‘Oh, well, okay, I’m going to go celebrate another St. Patrick’s day, I guess.’ And then someone’s like, ‘Oh, I watched a documentary,’ and they stare at you expectedly. And I’m talking about white parents, cause that’s who schools are afraid of. I am far more disturbed by how much white people still want to hear discussions on lives of people of color filtered through whiteness before they will hear it from actual people of color. We don’t have a gun in the house.’ And they said, ‘Well, that’s why we’re calling. And I don’t know if you notice, there’s a lot of you out here. Her voice should be on your feed. The emotional abuse has also reportedly gone further into physical abuse, with one allegation of Kelly slapping a woman when she spoke too kindly to a male cashier. It’s never going to be worth it.’ And you know, I remember living that, life day-in and day-out, of questioning, ‘Okay, is it really victory if I get fired and can’t feed my kids? SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. I immediately saw—because the venn diagram of these dudes and white supremacists is a big circle—that it was just a matter of time before we’d be targeted. I would rather whiteness studies be looked at as whiteness studies and these books being recommended in the field of whiteness studies. And that means that even if we lose so many battles, one victory is worth it, and that just keeps me going. And I think that the way in which it is embraced and done needs to be cognizant of how it interacts with white supremacy. I wrote the book, I mean I started the book in 2015, so Trump was still kind of an oddity, right? CM (43:15): That was a joke, by the way. And so there was this idea that this book might just be related to that specific time; it might not have any relevance consequentially. Given the fact that the overwhelming majority of incarcerated women are victims of sexual violence, Kaba makes sure the women who are most marginalized are not left out of the conversation. Where Black men caught with weed are serving equal sentences. And even for students who go all the way through, I see what that takes out of them. The women are technically at an age where they can consent to do whatever — and be with whomever — they want. CM (56:38): That’s always a danger with that. It’s just absurd. What I try to remind people, what I try to remind myself, what I always try to say is: you are more important than white supremacy. The singer once heralded for her academic achievements […] While almost every woman knows how pervasive sexual harassment and assault are in both the workplace and the world outside it, the visibility of women actors coming forward and sharing their experiences has many under the impression that #MeToo is a Hollywood phenomenon. But what I’ve started noticing just personally as I’m navigating, not just white spaces, but also the institution as a relatively recent grad, is—as I’m also educating myself and leading a few trainings, like how to talk about race, leading trainings about this video called “Race: The Power of an Illusion”—that when I try to hopefully apply my own lived experiences to projects, making sure it’s more equitable community engagement, understanding some cultural context to some of the projects, even though I’m not from here and understanding the community amongst my own colleagues, I hope—especially my fellow people of color, especially Black women and Black men in the workspace who I work with—I hope that I’m not reinforcing that white supremacy culture. They’re asking him, ‘Did you call, did you do this?’ And he had no idea what anyone was talking about. 3. peed on a 13-year-old girl. But I want to then switch right back to the beginning of the book cause I jumped ahead, cause I love jumping ahead. I always tell writers, write to know your audience and write to that audience no further, but this one, because everyone has a race, I had to know at least who I needed to benefit completely from it. Membership: (206) 452-7367 • [email protected], Terms Of Service & Privacy Policy • Powered by The Venture Platform. But the truth is, unfortunately, it’s also the hook, right? A single person of color is more important than the entire white supremacist system. But since then it’s been harassment. They get you excited about upcoming events by giving you a behind-the-scenes look into a presenter’s content, personality and interests. It means my address was put online, my contact information, but it was put online on a specific white supremacist site with aims towards swatting. What, outside of the sign? I didn’t want to say that; is that legal? They know a film, they know a hair documentary, they listen to an album, they like some music and then they think we’re going to be best friends. And I’m angry that I have to be grateful that it’s 10 years and not zero. And it’s just gutting. OI (57:23): You’re going to have to give me more context. And it’s simply because we can’t get the system to actually care enough to root out these issues, you know?