#recognizeyourprivilege

[cardsvoice]

Today our #dailyoracle cards will come from the #dailycrystalinspiration deck and the #wisdomforhealingcards deck! Today we will attempt to recognize our first thought, which 9/10 is our intuitive voice trying to speak to us. It's time to acknowledge that your first thought can actually be your best thought! Pay attention to our intuition as it will take every opportunity it can to whisper what we need to Know, Hear, and Understand. "But Cedez, my thoughts are just garbage. I don't even know what I'm thinking most of the time! And half of it is just complaints and blaming everyone for my own problems!" Well that means you're getting in your own way, which resonates with Tourmalinated Quartz! It's time to take ownership of our thoughts and stop making excuses as to why this or that "can't be done." Today we allow success to come to us in the form that's needed most - whatever form it may be! The path is clearer than you think it is - what *you* need to do is claim it for your own! Listen to yourself today and stop dismissing your "wayward" thoughts - step up and own up! Be Well & Be Blessed, Asé ✨🧿💜 #oracle #tarot #oraclecommunity #tarotcommunity #dailyreading #recognizeyourpotential #recognizeyourprivilege #patronofprophecy #oraclereaderofcolor (at Plattsburgh, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQBXwglS20/?utm_medium=tumblr

[madelynmayphotography]

I don't usually post political things on my business page or even my personal page. I try to keep it off social media but this time I can't stay quiet. I have missed opportunities to speak up and educate those around me, when they are speaking from a privileged view. I've stayed quiet because who wants conflict? Not anymore. I'll be having those hard conversations and sharing resources. In person and heck, even on here. I'm still learning and learning how to help. If you have feedback for me I'm totally open to it. #blacklivesmatter and we can't stay quiet about it. This violence and racism needs to change. Resources and more info will be posted in my stories. #blm #dontstaysilent #changeyourmindset #recognizeyourprivilege // On a different note. Here is a photo of a lovely couple that is getting married next year! They are pretty rad! #hawaiiwedding #gettingmarried2021#love #weddingphotography (at Sandy, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_K2hHnXMK/?igshid=inh3a16j4vzc

[thesocialscientista]

Voting gives you an active role in participating in the #present and the #future. Not voting creates this mythical #belief that what you are not presently satisfied with will transform on its own. The idea that if I #ignore it; it will go away. Ideas of #social change or better #choices doesn't decrease the time and energy we must spend on #maintenance to create a platform for the future. Failing to exercise your voting privilege rarely aligns with creating #empathy or #safety for people whose identities and lives are threatened by the system on a daily basis. #vote #ghost #stories #election #right #duty #election2016 #dontbooVote #selffullfillingprophecy #civicduty #privilege #recognizeyourprivilege

[overthehillsandfarfarfaraway]

Criticism of "color blindness"

In 1997 Leslie G. Carr published "Color-Blind Racism" (Sage Publications) which reviewed the history of racist ideologies in America. He saw "color-blindness" as an ideology being promoted to undercut the legal and political foundation of integration and affirmative action. Stephanie M. Wildman, in her book Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America, writes that many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which benefit them. For example, many Americans rely on a social and sometimes even financial inheritance from previous generations. She argues that this inheritance is unlikely to be forthcoming if one's ancestors were slaves, and privileges whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality.

Critics allege that majority groups use practices of color-blindness as a means of avoiding the topic of racism and accusations of racial discrimination, and thus hide their true racial views, and that color blindness is used as a tool in attacking group legal rights gained exclusively by some minority groups.

Critics assert that color blindness allows people to ignore the racial construction of whiteness, and reinforces its privileged and oppressive position. In colorblind situations, whiteness remains the normal standard, and blackness remains different, or marginal. As a result, white people are able to dominate when a color blind approach is applied because the common experiences are defined in terms which white people can more easily relate to than blacks. Insistence on no reference to race, critics argue, means black people can no longer point out the racism they face.

Critics of color-blindness argue that color-blindness operates under the assumption that we are living in a world that is "post-race", where race no longer matters, when in fact it is still a prevalent issue. While it is true that overt racism is rare today (Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo.; 2006, p. 25), critics insist that more covert forms have taken its place (Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo.; 2006, p. 25). Eduardo Bonilla-Silva suggests that racial practices during the Jim Crow Era were typically overt and clearly racial, whereas today they tend to be covert, institutional, and apparently nonracial.[13] Another criticism is that color-blindness views racism at the individual level (e.g. Lines of reasoning such as "I don't own slaves" or "I have very close black friends" to defend oneself) without looking at the larger social mechanisms in which racism operates. In an article in the journal New Directions for Student Services, Nancy Evans and Robert Reason argued that color-blindness fails to see the "structural, institutional, and societal" levels at which inequalities occur

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