In January, our TED group discussed privilege and race, and the need for open discussion about these topics. If you missed the gathering, you can watch this TEDx Talk on YouTube:

• Your Privilege is Showing (Lillian Medville, TEDxBeaconStreet, Jan 2018) 

Ms. Medville notes:

I had been raised to believe that the way to be a good, not racist white person, was to not see color. Which is unhelpful. If you can't see color, you can't talk about color, and if you can't talk about race gender class or ability you can't understand it. You can't understand the part you play in it and you can't understand the part it plays in you.

Additional related resources recommended by our January TEDsters include the following:

Videos...
    • How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion (Peggy McIntosh, TEDx Timberlane Schools, Nov 2012)
    • Tricia Rose - Pain, Passion, and Possibility: Learning from Difficult Subjects (Tricia Rose, Ph.D., Connecting for Change, July 2014)
    • Color Blind or Color Brave? (Mellody Hobson, TED2014)
Books...
    • White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, by Tim Wise, Soft Skull Press, 2007
    • Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving, Elephant Room Press, 2014
    • Small Great Things, by Jodi Piccoult, Ballantine Books, 2016
Local organizations...
    • YWCA Delaware's Racial & Social Justice program
    • Delaware Coalition to Dismantle the New Jim Crow