I hope you’ll listen, and feel empowered to begin exploring your own opportunities to create a better future for all of us. day, we’re rereleasing our conversation about antiracism, and the internal growth work you can begin today on your journey to becoming a true ally. Here’s the good news: Taking on these difficult internal challenges is what will allow you to fight against racism in your everyday life. In this case, it requires us to acknowledge how we’ve benefited from a system that routinely destroys other people’s lives in hideous ways, and that we do have some power to make things better, but we haven’t always used it. And as an experienced therapist and life coach, I know how tough making even minor internal changes can be. Some communities have challenged the basic structures of policing, and began to imagine new frameworks for public safety.īut big, structural changes like these depend on millions of individuals first changing internally. To donate to action groups, vote for reform, and march in the streets. The brutality of his death and the irrefutable video evidence led to a global outcry, waking many white Americans to a reality that Black Americans know too well: that racist violence is still a regular occurence in our country.
In May 2020, a Black man named George Floyd suffocated to death after he was pinned to the pavement outside a Minneapolis convenience store by a white police officer. Lisa Marie BobbyĪuthentic Antiracist Action Starts with You.
Cassie’s uncle Hammer comes to visit.The Love, Happiness & Success Podcast with Dr. He brings a worker who was fired to work on the Logans’ plantation. Who is Cassie’s Papa in roll of Thunder?Ĭassie’s papa comes home to their cotton plantation from trying to earn money working on the railroad. He hears about something a white girl did to Cassie, and wants to do something to the white girl, but he is stopped by Cassie’s mother. Who are the main characters in roll of Thunder?Ĭassie’s papa comes home to their cotton plantation from trying to earn money working on the railroad. Cassie and one of her brothers, Little Man, get in trouble for not taking there school books because of an offensive chart in the front cover of the books. Cassie Logan and her brothers walk to school while avoiding a school bus that takes white kids. How did Cassie Logan get in trouble in roll of Thunder?ġ. Cassie learns that TJ could be put in jail or be executed for what he did. Papa sets the woods on fire by his house on purpose to distract everyone from what’s happening and to not have TJ hanged. When TJ comes back from hanging out with the Simms brothers, Cassie finds out that TJ killed Mr.
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