From “Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy and Reclaiming Our Humanity” by Idelette McVicker In 2016 I was invited to spend time on Robben Island, a small island off the coast near Cape Town that was once used as a political prison by the apartheid government. Former president Nelson Mandela spent eighteen of the twenty-seven years […]
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From “Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy and Reclaiming Our Humanity” by Idelette McVicker This book is not a hero’s journey. It is for those of us who have hit rock bottom in the human story of race. We’ve come to the end of our whiteness. We want to be honest about our place in the
We acknowledge…. We repent… We have committed…. The journey of the recovering racist is a journey of love. From “Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy and Reclaiming Our Humanity” by Idelette McVicker
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“Unsolicited confessions [from white people to Black people] inspired by a sense of guilt are often poured over Black bodies in search of their own relief,” says Austin Channing Brown in I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Brown experienced this “self-indulgent desire for relief” after an MLK Day celebration at
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When I left South Africa, I didn’t want anything to do with a Jesus who endorsed colonialism, the slaughter of Zulu people, and the whole system of apartheid. I didn’t leave the true Jesus in South Africa – just white Jesus In Taiwan I discovered that Jesus was alive and well, especially around a table
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Leaving whiteness and entering an anti-racist world were, for me, like moving to Taiwan. I didn’t know the lay of the land. I didn’t know how to get around. I didn’t know the language. I was a newcomer. This is exactly where recovery from our internalized racism happens. Squamish author and designer Ta7taliya Nahanee created
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