Power Hoarding can come come in many forms especially when you consider the different types of power that exists. This Power Hoarding Bingo card is a look example and conversation starter about the characteristic. What may disturb me the most while looking at the bingo card is that I’ve heard…

Power is addictive. Power is attractive. Power can corrupt. Power can destroy. Power can restore. Power is complex. Power, as it relates to white supremacy characteristics, is closely related to fear of open conflict and the right to comfort. John R. P. French and Bertram Raven in 1959, developed concepts…

In this final thought exercise about objectivity, I thought I’d focus on these two antidotes to objectivity. support yourself and your group to sit with discomfort when people are sharing points of view or lived experiences that are not familiar to you get curious about sources of information and stories…

As I started to think about writing this post, I thought about the first two antidotes listed around objectivity: realize that everybody has a world view and world view affects the way we understand the world realize this is true for you too; you are not “objective,” you are steeped…

I’ve been recently listening to the Scene on Radio Season 5 podcast. The focus of the podcast has been about our climate crisis and exploration of how we got there in the early episodes. …

As I write this, we are in the height of the season of distorting MLK and his words. People will proclaim their intent to being color-blind and attribute it to King saying, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they…

For this final entry about paternalism, I want to focus on the following antidote: work on developing the ability to notice when you become defensive and/or insistent about doing something your way and do everything you can to take a breath; allow yourself room to consider how a different path…

Reflection to Action — White Supremacy Characteristics Edit descriptiondrive.google.com Reflection tools and tactics can be great to do some great inner work to engage with others in a more meaningful way. However, it’s tempting to use this as a way to formulate how to use this to change others and attack others whether it’s in the form of oppression…

Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away today and I couldn’t help but think of his quote, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral…