Huge thank you to Jill who caught that I somehow quoted Queen Angela Davis as Angela Baker. (facepalm emoji here) No idea how I managed such a massive mistake, but I fixed it here. Thank you for your grace!
I forgot we can comment on you newsletters now! 🙌🏻 My story is similar to yours, I grew up in a sheltered all white town, and lived there until fourteen years ago when I moved to the “big city”. We live up in Canada, where we have our own racial injustices and racism as well. Shannan, thanks for all your book recommendations, I have many of them, and have found they also translate well to our culture and issues. We are expecting an Indigenous foster son to join our family this July and I’m constantly thinking about what that’s going to be like for him to join a “white” family. I’m grateful we’re not in a “white neighbourhood” but I have SO MUCH to continue to learn in all of this. Looking forward to listening and learning.
just finished listening to a conversation between Christine Caine and Anita Phillips. Dr. Phillips explained the history of normalizing the dehumanization of PoC in such a powerful way. It may be too basic for many here, but it helped me. Found on IG. She sent listeners to Be the Bridge and Shaun King.
Huge thank you to Jill who caught that I somehow quoted Queen Angela Davis as Angela Baker. (facepalm emoji here) No idea how I managed such a massive mistake, but I fixed it here. Thank you for your grace!
Two books I recommend are Nobody Cries When We Die by Patrick B. Reyes and Native by Kaitlin B. Curtice.
I forgot we can comment on you newsletters now! 🙌🏻 My story is similar to yours, I grew up in a sheltered all white town, and lived there until fourteen years ago when I moved to the “big city”. We live up in Canada, where we have our own racial injustices and racism as well. Shannan, thanks for all your book recommendations, I have many of them, and have found they also translate well to our culture and issues. We are expecting an Indigenous foster son to join our family this July and I’m constantly thinking about what that’s going to be like for him to join a “white” family. I’m grateful we’re not in a “white neighbourhood” but I have SO MUCH to continue to learn in all of this. Looking forward to listening and learning.
Climbing in the row-boat with you, Shannan!
just finished listening to a conversation between Christine Caine and Anita Phillips. Dr. Phillips explained the history of normalizing the dehumanization of PoC in such a powerful way. It may be too basic for many here, but it helped me. Found on IG. She sent listeners to Be the Bridge and Shaun King.