I think I am between aware and active depending on the situation or conversation. I am aware of the topics and concepts but there are times when I feel more comfortable and confident and I am more active in the discussions. I would like to flow more between active and advocate and I am hoping that through this training I will get the tools necessary to help move me in that direction.
I'm actively in the education phase of learning about the experience of being Black in America. I'm trying to stay internally focused on what role I play in White Privledge and how I think unconsciously of Black people as less than fully human. I want to acknowledge and accept responsibility for my role and then find ways to actively become an anti-racist.
I go back and forth between active and advocate. I advocate for change, learn that there is more information that I need and then become active in looking for more information before advocating again.
I find myself between active and advocate. I advocate for equality and call out racism within my family, but when it comes to the general public I feel less informed. Of course, it also comes down to not being comfortable with confrontation to anyone.
I am between active, well-informed and advocating for change. I feel committed and actively advocate for political changes. I write lots of letters to politicians. My family discusses race-relations between police and Black people (over the last decade, I've even changed my mother's mind - and it blows me away). We talk about racism in our family and we've discussed how we see it in ourselves.
I'm usually someone who goes to marches, and I feel kinda bad about not attending Black Lives Matters marches recently due to the virus. I have to think about my high-risk immediate family members. But I've posted on Facebook for them, signed and passed petitions, and given money to fundraisers in support of the Black Lives Matters movement. What I'd like to do is to challenge my city council and police department to open dialog. To advocate for community policing where police get out of their cars and check on people, get to know children, and mentor young people of color. Not to leave out the need to train and hire more Native police in our area, as well as more Black police. I've been very focused on women's issues, so this would be a good add-on to that push. I'm very interested in a White dialog circle and perhaps I can get a group going using the book mentioned, "Witnessing Whiteness."