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What is Teach yo Self?
Teach. Yo. Self. is a space where resources can be shared to help spread awareness of whiteness and raise critical consciousness in order to dismantle white supremacy.
WHy teach Yo Self?
We cannot be blind to the invisible system of privilege that we are a part of.
It is our responsibility, as white people, to teach ourselves about the individual and systematic forms of racism
and how to be anti-racist individually and systematically.
This is imperative not only for the liberation of people of color,
but also for our own liberation and humanity as
white people.
It is our responsibility, as white people, to teach ourselves about the individual and systematic forms of racism
and how to be anti-racist individually and systematically.
This is imperative not only for the liberation of people of color,
but also for our own liberation and humanity as
white people.
It is not the responsibility of marginalized people to teach their oppressors.
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. -Audre Lorde