"This paucity of imagination has led to a bleaker life for all of us. If all of our "solutions" are just tinkering within the system, how can we truly imagine, let alone build, a better world? It's also disempowering -- it teaches that most people will have no role in affecting the problems that afflict them.
For some, the journey to more accountable activism can be difficult. People with privilege often respond with defensiveness when their privilege is pointed out. Robin DiAngelo coined the term white fragility to describe white reactions to criticism from people of color, including "the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation." All of which, she notes, serves to "reinstate white racial equilibrium."...
People with privilege are raised to see their own experience as central and objective. We can't imagine a story in which we are not the protagonist. We can't imagine a different, better economic system. We can't imagine a world without white, cisgendered, male dominance.
Saviors are not interested in examining their own privilege. We don't want to see that the systems of race and class and gender that keep us in comfort where we are -- in the "right" jobs and neighborhoods and schools -- are the same systems that created the problems we say we want to solve."
FB: "Sixty percent of US nonprofits see their mission as serving people of color. Sixty-three percent say that diversity is a key value of their organization. Yet 93 percent of nonprofit chief executives, 92 percent of their boards, and 82 percent of their staff are white. Thirty percent of nonprofit boards are all-white. These statistics suggest that the people directing and funding these organizations have absorbed the idea that people of color are not the experts in what they need."
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