Conversation 02: You, your friends, your family

From Pressed Coffee 03: May 29 - June 4, 2020

This week, our Pressed Coffee conversation segment is suspended in order to encourage everyone to have their own conversation, one on race, (anti-)racism, class, white privilege and anti-blackness. It is important that people in positions of privilege examine that privilege, and particularly white-people to examine their own white privilege. A major part of this movement we’re all living through is to work on revolutionizing our perception of race, class and the United States. Talk with your friends; talk with your family members.

Some of these articles/resources might help inform your approach to this conversation, depending on whom you intend to talk with, and also help you understand that work involved in becoming self-aware, among other qualities:

Talking About Race, a web portal from the National Museum of African American History & Culture

How To Be Anti-racist: Speak Out In Your Own Circles, from CNN/Boston News

Critical Conversations: Dr. Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility and Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, from the conscious kid

Me & White Supremacy: How To Check Your White Privilege, Zoe Beaty for Refinery29

For white people considering anti-racism, when your Black friends and colleagues have had enough, Alanah Nichole for Technically

Why We Need To Call Out Factual Racism, Luvvie Ajayi for TED