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Understanding Race, Racism, and White Privilege Resources

• The Nigerian author of Amariciana, Chimamand Ngozi’s Ted Talk about stories and their effect on how we view others.[https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/talkstar-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/8953d163-926f-4331-8f1f-86db90b94f0b/ChimamandaAdichie_2009G-embed.jpg?c=1050%2C550&w=1050]<https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
  The danger of a single story | TED TALK https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en
  Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. www.ted.com
  
• BLMLA Resources and Reading suggestion https://www.blmla.org/resources#readinglist
  
• Here is a great short video that suggests some concrete ways you can “do something” now re: racism. This ties into the concept of overcoming white fragility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFCRHhygHo
  
• This is a Ted Talk by Prof. Jody Armour of USC Law School, who is an acquaintance of Vivien Hao Pacific Unitarian in 1999. His book: Negrophobia is an excellent resource for the study of “reasonable racism”– one of my top 5 reads on racial justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9RrYnQr5Q&t=75s
  
• Recommended video study: A 10 episode history of the American Church’s complicity in racism over the last 500 years. It’s long but worth a look, as it is comprehensive and critically examines our history through a racial lens. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B083ZNVRBQ/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_iEgOEZ_2_1
  
• If you have having trouble with the concept that 250 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Black people are still disadvantaged in virtually every measurable and unmeasurable way, here’s 20 minutes that will change your thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhcY6fTyBM
  
• The book “White Fragility” by Robin D’Angelo. https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414
  
• Allegories on race and “racism”<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhcY6fTyBM>
  
• Being Nice <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jin7ISV85s>
  
• UncomfortableConversations https://www.facebook.com/themanacho/videos/272134207491609/