What action will you take to address racism in our community?

Visit the SURJ Baltimore Facebook page to stay informed about ways you can show up. 

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Actions within your Family

• Engage a friend or family member in dialogue about racism. Challenge racial stereotypes you encounter in jokes, conversations, movies/TV, books.
• Host a group of friends and/or family members to participate in a webinar by Raising Race Conscious Children. Develop confidence to talk about race with young children, practice various strategies to proactively talk about race with kids, strengthen children’s abilities to embrace multiculturalism and learn how to become change-makers.​​

The real liberatory and radical work begins at home, literally. Black people don’t need to be convinced that anti-black racism, structural inequity and skin privilege are facts; white people do… White people have to do the hard work of figuring out the best ways to educate themselves and each other about racism. "
-Darnell L. Moore, senior editor at Mic and co-managing editor of The Feminist Wire

Actions within your Neighborhood

• Utilize a SURJ Action Tookit in your neighborhood. ​
• Start a discussion group using books, such as The New Jim Crow, Between the World and Me, Towards the “Other America”: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter (free download right now),  or articles such as The Case for Reparations, Shinin’ the Lite on White. 
• Put a Black Lives Matter sign on the porch, in the yard, or in the window of your home or business.

 Everyone should see their investment in dismantling white supremacy. Racial justice organizing is not about confessing race privilege, saying all the right radical things and trying to avoid offending people of color. It’s about building social movements that can dismantle white supremacy. Everyone needs to do that work."
 -Andrea Lee Smith, co-founder INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Boarding School Healing Project and the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations