Common Pitfalls & Traps that White People Often Fall Into when Starting Anti-racist Work
Welcome to my second writing on antiracism. I hope this essay speaks to the white, often left-leaning or liberal audience, primarily in America, in a language they will understand. It points out many of the mistakes, times when I didn't think or didn't know how to navigate conversations of race, untruths I believed and vocalized for years before I learned more. This will be a confession of things I have said and things I have done, from before I got schooled significantly in the literature, and the deep wisdom and activism of liberation, the practice of cultural antiracism, and what I now am understanding as the fight for abolition and process of seeking of justice. This stuff is embarrassing to write, but all too common in the process of suddenly immersing yourself in the work of antiracism and co-conspiratorship. One more note is that the foundational practice and inspiration for this writing draws from and is charted by my spiritual base, which includes the schools of Buddh...
