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1583 - Stéphanie Pageau: "Part of being a good #ally is …" - disabled.social
Part of being a good #ally is listening to the people you want to protect. If someone you're trying to protect tells you that your words are problematic, you need to listen and learn. We can always be better.
3887 - Ang Black: "#BlackHistoryMonth Drop some f…" - disabled.social
#BlackHistoryMonth Drop some facts! - #BlackFriday Feb 2, 2024 1839 Inventor Edmond Berger patented the spark plug. 1862 District of Columbia abolishes slavery 1898 Alfred L Cralle invented Ice Cream scooper| patent #576,395 1915 Ernest Just wins 1st Spingarn Medal 1935 Anne Raven Wilkinson 1st African American to receive full time contract with major ballet company #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social
4494 - No more AI in healthcare please 😵💫 #artificialintelligence - YouTube
Why did you deny my claim?
5049 - cjvasse
@HackneyAbbott Such discriminatory recruitment policies was also adopted by local bus companies, which barred black and other ethnic minorities from employment. This culminated in the Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963 - it has been largely forgotten but equally contributed to equal opportunities. https://t.co/H9Rc6PNQ7z
6029 - flashblak
Quotas of Aboriginal staff, senior staff, board members etc is not THE solutuon.This places stress & onus on Blak people to dismantle white supremacy, systemic & structural racism.They cannot do this is if white ppl do not change their behaviour/attitude/actions
7029 - US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty
US universities have made public commitments to recruit and retain faculty of colour. Analysis of three federal datasets shows that at current rates diversity in US faculty will never reach racial parity. Yet, colleges and universities could achieve parity by 2050 by diversifying their faculty at 3.5 times the current pace.
7463 - Ugh my middle kiddo came home from respite after 30 min. The stress of SocialWorker interview about brother assaulting them, stress of impending homelessness, and starting their period was too much...
8217 - Friday essay: a slave state - how blackbirding in colonial Australia created a legacy of racism
Forced labour in the cane fields of Queensland has had a lasting influence of the Australian nation.
11246 - mekka okereke :verified:: "Multiply that dining while Bla…" - disabled.social
Multiply that dining while Black, across all the aspects of life: going to school while Black. Driving while Black. Going to the ER while Black. Etc
In the US, Black people have a better sense for how many white folk are anti-civil rights than white people, because we experience these interactions.
By the time a Black person in the US reaches adulthood, they have *hundreds of thousands* of data points of interactions with white people in the US, where the white person had an opportunity...
