This OTYCD piece originally appeared in February 2019.
Join Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a group that encourages and organizes white people to dismantle white supremacy and move America toward actual racial equality.
If you’re reading this, odds are you’re white. And odds are you’re sickened by how white supremacy warps our society and you want to do something about it. Knowing what to do, exactly, can be hard. White supremacy is insidious and it can be hard for white people to see its effects as clearly as people of color do.
SURJ, founded in 2009, is a network of white anti-racists that’s devoted to serving as allies to people of color and their causes. It also supports using white privilege as a weapon against itself by speaking out against police brutality and related abuses. It facilitates the awkward conversations that white people need to have, amongst ourselves, without burdening people of color to shepherd us and do the work for us.
SURJ is intersectional and all-inclusive while staying alert to how systemic racism shows its face in a chapter’s local community, and finding thoughtful, specific ways to fight back. SURJ will also help you learn to be a better, more useful ally.
Visit the SURJ website:
http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org
Find your nearest SURJ group:
http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/affiliated_groups_local_contacts
Donate to SURJ:
https://showingupforracialjustice.nationbuilder.com/donate
Like its Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/ShowingUpForRacialJusticesurj/
Follow it on Twitter:
@ShowUp4RJ
Read this 2015 interview with SURJ leaders:
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