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“Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins”

Pain Race Sadness Racism In America

Book:I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“...the organization wanted our racial diversity without our diversity of thought and culture.”

Culture Black Diversity Racism I M Still Here

Book:I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“Whiteness wants enough blackness to affirm the goodness of whiteness, the progressiveness of whiteness, the open-heartedness of whiteness. Whiteness likes a trickle of blackness, but only that which can be controlled.”

Diversity Racism Whiteness I M Still Here

Book:I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“I have been in the room when promises were made to diversify boardrooms, leadership teams, pastoral staff, faculty and staff positions, only to watch committees appoint a white man in the end. It's difficult to express how these incidences accumulate, making you feel undervalued, unappreciated, and ultimately...expendable.”

Black Diversity Racism Diversify

Book:I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“I worked as if white folks were at the centre, the great hope, the lynchpin. The key to racial justice and reconciliation. And so, I contorted myself to be the voice white folks could hear. It’s amazing how white supremacy even invades programs aimed at seeking racial reconciliation.”

White Supremacy Racism Quotes

Book:I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“When you believe niceness disproves the presence of racism, it's easy to start believing bigotry is rare, and that the label racist should be applied only to mean-spirited, intentional acts of discrimination.”

White Fragility

Book:I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts.”

Race Christianity Ministry Black Women Black Churches

Book:I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness