introduction - some thoughts on race
am new here, so learning about how all this works. am used to reposting things more often than creating original content. hoping this gives me more incentive to write again. was really good at getting my thoughts out in another time. hope to start making some great connections with real people! these questions are from a facebook page i follow. link at bottom.
some background: live in a tiny rural town in oregon, one of the whitest states in the country and a long history of racism. the POC in my town are almost all native american and hispanic. am nearly homeless myself, essentially squatting with permission and have no car. my activism of any kind is almost entirely restricted to the internet.
How will you be relentlessly reliable?
calling out racist posts and comments from people in my news feed on facebook. making sure as a city council member we honor the treaties with the columbia river fishing tribes and support their causes. encourage hispanic kids i read with at the school to speak spanish when we have bilingual books.
What does it look like in our shared crucible?
we are all diminished by the election of 45 and the normalization of outward racism in the united states towards nonwhite people. however, the bigger issues of wall street, safe food/water, fossil fuels, and demonization of the poor are the biggest issues we face as a society. they are not limited to POC, though POC are often disproportionately affected. as non-POC, we must make sure marginalized populations are no longer left behind in solving these problems.
What will it look like in your life outside your screen?
personally, i believe a large percentage of the remaining racism in our society is rooted in older generations who are dying out. am not going to be able to change my 97-year-old grandmother from believing all ‘colored people’ (yes, she still uses that term) are welfare queens, etc. however, the current high schoolers and millennial generations are so much more accepting of racial and other cultural differences. wish my generation (X) had stepped up more in public, but they have raised these generations so i guess they’re doing something right.
What does your 'yes' mean?
‘yes’ means i stand with POC however i can and work to change the systemic racism encoded in our legal system.
Welcome here.
I feel like a lot of our shared concerns can be addressed through steemit in a way which is a benefit to all involved.
There is a lot of community building happening on the discord app, guilds of curators, writers guilds, all sorts, and they work un support of steemit
thanks for spreading the word! looking forward to building better connections