Things that don’t make you immune to whiteness and white supremacy,
- Dating a person of colour.
- Engaging with friends of colour.
- Loving ethnic cuisine.
- Ascribing to another protected characteristic.
- Learning and speaking another language.
- Having PoC in your family
- Being a good person.
- Having good intentions.
- Working with PoC for a charity.
- Saying I’m not racist but …
- Being a person of faith.
- Loving world music.
- Teaching in a school which is majority GM.
- Being a feminist.
- Having children of colour / having bi-racial children.
- Believing that you are beyond denial.
- Retweeting Black activists and theorists.
- Announcing your white privilege.
- Taking the lead on ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiatives
- ‘Tolerating’ diversity
- Being in an academic field i.e. African Studies, etc.
- Putting up signs in different languages along the corridor in your establishments.
- Holding stand-alone themed weeks (Chinese New year, black history (for one) month (only))
- Forming committees to tackle racism or raise issues faced by BAME communities.
- Being a person of colour.
- Raising money for a specific charity Being a member of a specific organisation
- Having siblings or family of colour.
- My best mate is…
- I once went to that country.
- I work with/I went on a course once…I
- hear what you are saying, but I have never been racist
- I watched Roots, as a kid.
- Holding a particular political viewpoint.
- Being white and moving to a country where you are then a minority. Eg White people who have a gap year in SE Asia and claim to understand what it’s like to be a minority.
- Travelling, growing up in different countries.
- Enjoying and using fashions/textiles
- Receiving approval for a single/few acts of solidarity/ally-ship
- Wearing your hair a certain way.
All of the above attributes or actions do not provide us with a get out of jail card.
Please do add some more below.