Calling All White People, Part 54: Going beyond the little things

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TODAY’S EPISODE: Sometimes the “little things” distract us from big work    “It’s the little things…” This is a pithy little saying about, well, little things, and it does have meaning. The little things do matter. Certainly micro-aggressions are little things but they build up and matter as constant pokes and jabs steadily wear the …

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Calling All White People, Part 52: The smallest of victories

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TODAY’S EPISODE: One victory does not win the campaign    There is, I think—or at least it’s something that I perceive pretty widely—a problem among us white people who aren’t open oppressors or obvious bigots in terms of stupid optimism and wildly misplaced idealism. We are, so many of us (especially online and in offices …

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