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At ARMA, we have embarked on the journey to embed equity, diversity and inclusion into all areas of activity, including our governance. We know that our members are on similar journeys. We have therefore started to put together the following virtual library of resources which we hope you’ll find useful. If you have seen, heard or read anything that chimed with you, and which you’d like to share, please let us know and we’ll be pleased to add it to these resources.
Anti-racism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zs9n2v4
https://cers.leeds.ac.uk/projects/the-anti-racism-toolkit/
https://medium.com/wake-up-call/a-detailed-list-of-anti-racism-resources-a34b259a3eea
Allyship
https://www.yourblackfriendsarebusy.com/
https://sojo.net/articles/our-white-friends-desiring-be-allies
https://alltogethernow.org.au/
Terminology
https://www.hivelearning.com/site/diversity-inclusion-glossary/
https://www.theotherbox.org/news-page/2020/6/6/may-diversity-dictionary-roundup#
Emotional Tax
https://blackonwhitetv.blogspot.com/2020/07/people-of-colour-face-burn-out-as.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01920-6
https://www.cio.com/article/3259825/how-to-lower-the-emotional-tax-on-minority-employees.html
Uncomfortable Conversations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8jUA7JBkF4
https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_thunig_disruption_is_not_a_dirty_word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SynR1NYcpo
https://medium.com/%40BMatB/trouble-318b8cbf4f35
Racism and Science
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008zc5
Bias
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/bias
https://www.tidalequality.com/blog/dont-do-unconscious-bias-training
Reading Lists
https://hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/hbr.org/amp/2020/06/confronting-racism-at-work-a-reading-list
https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/articles/black-lives-matter-an-anti-racist-reading-list
https://www.waterstones.com/blog/read-against-racism-an-essential-book-list
https://survivorsnetwork.org.uk/anti-racism-resources/
Quotes
“It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.”
–Clarence Page
“…’Black Lives Matter’ simply refers to the notion that there’s a specific vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be addressed. It’s not meant to suggest that other lives don’t matter. It’s to suggest that other folks aren’t experiencing this particular vulnerability.”
-Barack Obama
“Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we’re immediately born into”
– Scott Woods
“Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eye and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.”
-Robert F. Kennedy
“Don’t hate what you don’t understand”
-John Lennon
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
-Malcolm X
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.”
-Angela Davis
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
-Audre Lorde
“There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race — scientifically, anthropologically.”
-Toni Morrison
“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.”
-Ijeoma Oluo
“To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.”
-Rosa Parks
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”
-Maya Angelou
“What you do in times of crisis reflects your truth”
– Candace Howze
“If you have come here to help me, then you are wasting your time…But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
–Lila Watson
“Slow down: Don’t try to fix it. Don’t rush to find an answer or act out of your guilt. Remember that many of your comrades have been doing this work for a long time and experience the kind of oppression you’re learning about more acutely than you. It didn’t start with you and isn’t going to end with you.”
-M.
“White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this-which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never, the Negro problem will not longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.”
–James Baldwin
“To continue reproducing racial inequality, the system only needs for white people to be really nice and carry on – to smile at people of color, to go to lunch with them on occasion. To be clear, being nice is generally a better policy than being mean. But niceness does not bring racism to the table and will not keep it on the table when so many of us who are white want it off. Niceness does not break with white solidarity and white silence. In fact, naming racism is often seen as not nice, triggering white fragility.”
― Robin DiAngelo
“If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way — who would like to have a set of association with blacks that are as positive as those that you have with whites — it requires more than a simple commitment to equality. It requires that you change your life…”
-Malcolm Gladwell
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
-Nelson Mandela
“Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it can’t just be on people of color to deal with it. It’s up to all of us — Black, white, everyone — no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out.”
-Michelle Obama
“For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.”
—Mary McLeod Bethune
“One of my favourite thinkers is a woman called Amanda Seales and I feel it deeply when she says this: ‘You cannot enjoy the rhythm and ignore the blues.’ And I say that with my chest.”
– Clara Amfo
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
-James Baldwin
“If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system or you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of.”
– Ijeoma Oluo
‘If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.’
– Desmond Tutu
“Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and doing something to make a difference. We can each make a difference…because each of us is already part of the community where racism exists & thrives.”
–Paul Kivel
“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
-Oprah Winfrey
“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
-Alice Walker
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
-Martin Luther King Jr
“None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.”
-Cornell West
“Action is the only remedy to indifference: the most insidious danger of all.”
-Elie Wiesel
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
-Martin Luther King Jr
“History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.”
—Michelle Obama
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
—Desmond Tutu
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
—Rosa Parks
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
—Barack Obama
“We must open the doors and we must see to it they remain open, so that others can pass through.”
—Rosemary Brown
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
-Angela Davis
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