In this video, from the July 14, 2020 Leadership, Race and Privilege Community Support call, John and Rudy Nickens speak to the ways in which we have all been impacted by systemic racism & oppression, and have co-created a legacy of hurt.

You'll also learn:
- The importance of language in changing the narrative
- One way to shift your use of language by differentiating individuals from their circumstances
- The importance of listening, supporting and believing people when they say something hurts them
- How we can progress the work of diversity, equity and inclusion to include wholeness and intersectionality
- How internalized racism plays into systemic racism
- How we can take responsibility for educating the people around us, in all aspects of our lives
- How we can interrupt the racism associated with the sustainability movement and amplify the voices and practices of Indigenous people
- The importance of doing the work to appreciate your own identity, and from there, speaking to others like you about racism and oppression
- A reminder that race is a social construct born out of racism, and that there is no biological predisposition for race
- Confrontation requires presence -- In a moment in which someone makes a racist comment, for example, you need to develop the capacity to stand, breathe, and own your truth that, "That was a racist comment and I'm not okay with that."
- How you can lead your own movement to start conversations around this topic and contribute to our collective healing
- Why it's important that we not turn away from the documented circumstances of racism and police brutality, and that we instead turn toward it, feel it and act

Resources Shared During This Call:

Links:
Rudy Nickens: https://evolution.team/rudy-nickens
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War - PBS: https://www.pbs.org/weta/reconstruction/
United to End Racism: https://www.unitedtoendracism.org/
YWCA: https://www.ywca.org/
The Peoples Institute for Survival & Beyond: https://www.pisab.org/
Rochelle McLaughlin, Ways of the Rising Women: https://rochellemclaughlin.com/course
Resma Menakem: https://www.resmaa.com/
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
White People 4 Black Lives: https://www.awarela.org/white-people-4-black-lives
Bernadette Pleasant, 400 years: https://theemotionalinstitute.com/400-years/
Constructive White Conversations: https://www.constructivewhiteconversations.org/
Karine Bell: https://www.karinebell.com/
Rachel Cargle, Dear White Women: http://rachel-cargle.com/
Decolonizing nonviolent communication https://www.traumainformednvc.com/decolonizing-nvc-workbook


Catrice M. Jackson: http://www.catriceology.com/
Navajo Water Project https://www.navajowaterproject.org/

Books:
"My Grandmother's Hands" by Resma Menakem
"White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo
"Me and White Supremacy" Layla Saad