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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 17:06:42 JST StillIRise1963

   If Black people knew how to make white people stop being racists, we would have done that 400 fucking years ago. This is on white people. Only you can solve the problem you create.

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     Clay Rivers (clayrivers@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 17:06:38 JST Clay Rivers

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     @StillIRise1963 That requires a bit of self-reflection, not to mention taking some responsibility for maintaining a system that denigrates the global majority population. I could go on and on, but I think it also involves acknowledging that it’s advantageous to them … and an advantage isn’t really an advantage unless someone else is DEPRIVED of it. Then there’s the guilt, blah, blah, blah. But SOME work through it. A select few.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 17:06:39 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Clay Rivers

     @clayrivers Yep. Why do they not see they are the ONLY ones with agency in this arena.😐

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     Clay Rivers (clayrivers@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 17:06:40 JST Clay Rivers

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     @StillIRise1963 I can’t tell you how many times I’ve uttered that very sentence … to the amazement of listeners.

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     Kate Bowles (kate@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 17:06:50 JST Kate Bowles

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     • Clay Rivers

     @clayrivers @StillIRise1963

     I hope you both don’t mind if I pop a note of thanks into this exchange for the specific thing you said here: “responsibility for maintaining a system”. This is so clear.

     I pay attention to the ways in which my smaller actions actively maintain polluting systems, whether by not noticing or going along or settling for or other ways of doing it. Responsibility for maintaining racist systems is also something white people do with our smaller acts all the time. Keeping this front of mind today.