A Note From Our Team...
Posted by ODDBIRD CO
Read & Practice:
By Peggy McIntosh
An informative article from MEDIUM.COM on how you can make changes within your community.
Read:
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'How To Be An Antiracist' By Ibram X. Kendi |
'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism.'
By Robin Diangelo & Michael Eric Dyson |
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Read with your kids:
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Healing for future generations comes from the education you provide in your own home.
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Another great resource for parents, available in an activity book for middle-school aged children and above, @SPLCENTER offers a 'Civil Rights Activity Book' where you can walk through the Civil Rights Movement with your children and have the initial conversations on race and inequality. This activity book is completely free and available for download. |
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Watch:
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'The 13th' A documentary that explores the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States.
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'When They See Us' A mini-series exploring the case of the 'Exonerated 5', previously known as the 'Central Park 5'. |
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'16 shots' A Showtime documentary that looks at the 2014 shooting death of Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police and the subsequent coverup. |
'Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story' By Jenner Furst & Julia Willoughby Nason The examination of the shooting of Trayvon Martin; the case that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement
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'Becoming' A Documentary that offers an inspiring message while highlighting race issues through the eyes of the former First Lady Michelle Obama. A film you can watch with your older children that allows for deep conversations on the issues of racism in the present day.
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Support/Donate
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@NAACP |
Equal Justice Initiative |
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Learn how you can donate and sign the petition to invest in sustainable solutions that affirms Black lives nationwide. |
@GOFUNDME Justice and Equity fund Learn how you can donate to Go Fund Me's campaign focused on bail, racial justice and law enforcement reform of which they have donated $500,000 to launch. |
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Follow:
BIPOC voices that have personally helped us to learn and understand
@theconsciouskid
@moemotivate
@andrearanaej
@ckyourprivilege
@blackcoffeewithwhitefriends
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Invest in your community:
Support Black-owned businesses, creatives, scholars, and non-profits with your money.
Purchase from their stores, order from their restaurants, buy their literature, listen to their words, listen to their music, invest in their art, share their works on social media and give them full credit - tell your friends to do the same.
We will be posting BIPOC businesses, creatives, and organizations on our Instagram page and encourage you to check in out through the week.
We hope this is a good place to start and welcome input from our Oddbird community. Please don't ever hesitate to reach out with suggestions/corrections.
We will be the first to admit that we do not have the answers or know how to do this right, but instead, we look to the leaders of the Black community for guidance, being quick to listen, slow to speak.
We encourage you all to do the work and draw from the BIPOC voices that are leading the way.
With love,
Oddbird team 🌿
