BLM
TAKE ACTION:
- Write to your state legislators about racial justice-minded legislation: https://cqrcengage.com/socialworkersma/ActionCenter?1
- Create an action plan for racial equity: https://www.racialequitytools.org/plan/action-plan
- Hire and retain a diverse workforce:
- 6 Steps for Building an Inclusive Workplace: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/0418/pages/6-steps-for-building-an-inclusive-workplace.aspx
Beyond Diversity: A Road Map to Building an Inclusion Organization: https://www.diversegreen.org/beyond-diversity/ - Blind Hiring: A How-to Guide to Reduce Bias and Increase Diversity: https://ideal.com/blind-hiring/
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack: https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
- Let NASW-NM know how we can support any anti-discrimination efforts that you are aware of happening across the state.
START TALKING:
- What is sitting with you personally?
- What are some of the disparities or systemic disparities you have seen that have contributed to the violence against communities of color or within the social work profession?
- What does meaningful action mean to you personally? And professionally?
RESOURCES:
- Definitions: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.naswma.org/resource/resmgr/naswma_racial_justice_terms_.pdf
- Anti-racism Resources for White People: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR0zV9XsKq-oePdYqyu-L4fO7qTQs7Mwl_-kcrs7nxolV5r_XkzyM8MHUtg
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh: https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism by Robin DiAngelo: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism_b_7183710
- White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun: http://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture.pdf
- When the ‘White Tears’ Keep Coming by Leah Donnella: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/11/28/649537891/when-the-white-tears-just-keep-coming
- The Empathy Crisis of White America by Phillip Picardi: https://fruity.substack.com/p/the-empathy-crisis-of-white-america?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy&fbclid=IwAR06zvBu9mBZ7EVfgVOUKHNZhOr8hkPt7lLE6maQZHwp8jqzeEAzEY9MT4U
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race by Jay Smooth (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU
- Allegories on Race and Racism by Camara Phyllis Jones (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhcY6fTyBM
- A History of Racial Injustice (calendar): https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice
- Safe Black Space: https://www.safeblackspace.org/resources
- The Melanated Social Work Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-melanated-social-work-podcast/id1459689875
- Mapping Police Violence: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
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