Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Self-Defined Majorities -- When does "white" mean white? And who decides?

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

When whites refuse to recognize, and mark the box, of whiteness, we
make it so there are no ways to measure the systemic impact of race.
Please mark the box so that record-keeping can happen and therefore
work can be done to reduced systemic racial systems.

Completely separately---
I must admit I don't see how checking or not checking boxes stops me
from getting the privileges that come with being white, since that
comes from systems and individuals that see me as white no matter how
I identify.
Privileges are not something we "take" they are things handed to us
whether we want them or not.

-Liz
(The Rev. Dr.) Elizabeth Mae Magill
Pastor, Ashburnham Community Church
Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
www.elizabethmaemagill.com
508-450-0431

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 9:44 PM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L
<cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>
> Reflecting on the meaning of White while I was reading Isabel Wilkerson’s 
> Caste and reviewing the results of the cohousing survey. I realized that the 
> fastest way to break up White privilege is to stop defining white. Stop 
> accepting it as a category of anything. Just refuse to check that box.
>
> https://passtheolives.substack.com/p/self-defined-majorities?sd=pf
>
> I’m starting this blog on Substack to focus my writing in clear direction. I 
> have so much stuff on so many email lists that I have lost track of it. I 
> can’t even quote myself!
>
> Sharon
> ——
> Sharon Villines
> Pass the Olives, Jumbled opinions on Life, Reading, Writing, and Making Things
> https://passtheolives.substack.com
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