{"id":8021,"date":"2010-04-05T12:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8021"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:02:48","slug":"whiteness-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/whiteness-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiteness workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=2758198\">Exposing<\/a> your inner racist:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/a123.g.akamai.net\/f\/123\/12465\/1d\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/2758206.bin?size=404x272\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"202\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Thinking About Whiteness and Doing Anti-Racism,&#8221; a four-part evening workshop for community activists, presented earlier this year at the Toronto Women&#8217;s Bookstore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The central theme of the course was that this twinned combination of capitalism and racism has produced a cult of &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; which permeates every aspect of our lives. &#8220;Canada is a white supremacist country, so I assume that I&#8217;m racist,&#8221; one of the students said matter-of-factly during our first session. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about not being racist. Because I know I am. It&#8217;s about becoming less racist.&#8221; At this, another student told the class: &#8220;I hate when people tell me they&#8217;re colour-blind. That is the most overt kind of racism. When people say \u2018I don&#8217;t see your race,&#8217; I know that&#8217;s wrong. To ignore race is to be more racist than to acknowledge race. I call it neo-racism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDoing Anti-Racism\u201d resonates with the same jarring fingernails-on-a-blackboard sound as \u201cDoing Justice\u201d: I can\u2019t understand why the Anglican Church of Canada hasn\u2019t caught on to it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposing your inner racist: &#8220;Thinking About Whiteness and Doing Anti-Racism,&#8221; a four-part evening workshop for community activists, presented earlier this year at the Toronto Women&#8217;s Bookstore. The central theme of the course was that this twinned combination of capitalism and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/whiteness-workshop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[1269],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-in-particular","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}