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You wrote a post for social media. You went to a protest. You made a sign. You posted your protest photos on social media. You shared. You retweeted. You liked. And now you want to know if that was enough. You want to know if there is anything else you should do. Signs and protests and social media posts are fine, but I believe the work that we as white people in the United States must do is deeper than attending a protest and retweeting a hashtag. Protests are very good for demanding legislation or specific change and spreading awareness, but protests cannot dismantle white supremacy in our hearts. In order to do this heart level work of dismantling white supremacy, I suggest starting here: We must recognize white supremacy in us. It is easy for us to point out white supremacy in profane language about people of color, in confederate flags, and in the KKK and other hate groups. It is easy to bring attention towards their racism, but it is much more difficult to recognize ...

This list of resources for learning about and fighting against racism, injustice, and white supremacy is not exhaustive and will be continually updated, so check back later to see what else has been added. Books to read: The Color of Compromise , by Jemar Tisby I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness , by Austin Channing Brown Divided by Faith , by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith Just Mercy , by Bryan Stevenson White Awake , by Daniel Hill From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century , by William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America , by Ibram X. Kendi Podcasts and video web series to listen to: Pass the Mic We Talk Different Truth's Table Footnotes with Jemar Jude 3 Project Seeing White The Next Question Reclaiming my Theology YouTube videos to watch: Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo Race, Trauma, and th...

Over the past few days, I have seen a variety of responses regarding the riots and lootings that have been taking place in cities across our country. This post is directed to all of my white friends and neighbors who may feel angry or upset about these riots and lootings. When black and other marginalized people in our country have been oppressed, abused, and murdered for over 400 years, we don't get to tell anyone what to do with their pain and anger. We don't get to dictate how people respond to the pain and injustice that we have caused by our silence, by our church's silence, by our colorblindness, by our eurocentric curriculums, by our denial of white privilege, by our culutral appropriation, by all of the ways that we subtly embody white supremacy day after day that contribute to a national climate that empowers murderers and permits them to sleep in their own bed in their own home after taking a black person's life on camera. We don't get to complain when w...