How to be an ally

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2009/08/wonder-where-to-start-when-they-join.html

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.daa.org.uk%2Fuploads%2Fpdf%2FHow%2520to%2520be%2520an%2520Ally.pdf

http://loveisntenough.com/2009/12/30/how-to-be-an-anti-racist-ally/

http://www.scn.org/friends/ally.html

http://dartmouthcwg.com/2012/05/01/how-to-be-an-ally/

http://zinelibrary.info/files/combinedallyshippdf.pdf

Cultural Appropriation

http://alagarconniere.blogspot.com/2010/04/critical-fashion-lovers-basic-guide-to.html

http://irresistable-revolution.blogspot.com/2010/10/im-sorry-whiteness-you-cant-have.html

http://apihtawikosisan.tumblr.com/post/24815044400/cultural-appropriation-the-longer-article

http://adailyriot.tumblr.com/post/16824986842/update-culutral-appropriation-dos-and-donts

Black people should know better to not oppress

"Black people should not know better when it comes to supporting the full rights and dignity of other groups of people. Like all humans, our support for equality should come from many sources, not just the fact that we have also been oppressed. Respecting other groups isn’t something that you are born with, but something one must work at. It can be attained simply by having been through hard times. We must still make a choice to live our lives with respect for all groups of people. Being Black doesn’t imbue us with special powers to automatically understand someone else’s plight, nor should anyone think it does. When it comes to Black people, the following needs to be understood: not superhuman, not subhuman, but human."


http://antiintellect.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/blacks-should-not-know-better-and-heres-why/

Political and Social Identity

"Identification with the Negro community demands considerable sacrifice. The Negro is not to be won by words alone, but by an obvious consistency in words and deeds. The identified person is the one who fights side by side with him for justice. This demands being so integral a part of the Negro community in its day-to-day struggle, so close to it in similarity of work, so near its standard of living that when problems arise he who stands forth to judge, plan, suggest, or lead is really at one with the Negro masses."

Bayard Rustin

Violence

"Having lived in a society in which church, school, and home problems have been handled in a violent way, the majority at this point are unable to conceive of a solution by reconciliation and nonviolence. I have seen schoolboys in Arkansas laying away rusty guns for the "Time when." I have heard many young men in the armed forces hope for a machine-gun assignment "so I can turn it on the white folks."

-Bayard Rustin

Sit in the Back

"You ride in back."

I said, "My friend, I believe that is an unjust law. If I were to sit in back I would be condoning injustice."

"Get up, you...!!!"

I said quietly, "If I sit in the back of the bus I am depriving that child -" I pointed to a little white child of five or six- "of the knowledge that there is injustice here, which I believe it is his right to know. It is my sincere conviction that the power of love in the world is the greatest power existing. If you have greater power, my friend, you may move me."

-Rustin Bayard

Sexism in Civil Rights Movement

"Baker did encounter sexism in SCLC that mirrored Rustin's political tribulations as a gay man. SCLC ministers resisted her authority, while King disregarded Baker's input on substantive matters. According to Baker, SCLC was fast becoming a "cult of personality" devoted solely to the upkeep of King's celebrity status. When she rased this concern with King, he replied, "Well, I can't help what people do."

Another woman on SCLC executive committee, Septima Clarck, affirmed Baker's point of view: "Those men didn't have any faith in women, none whatsoever. They just thought that women were sex symbols and had no contribution to make."

-The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin