{"id":32660,"date":"2021-04-14T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2021-04-23T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T01:54:05","slug":"end-systemic-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/end-systemic-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"How to End Systemic Racism Once and For All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is there a way to end systemic racism<\/a>? What can you, as an individual, do to contribute to the collective efforts to put end to racism on the institutional\/systemic level?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Systemic racism is pervasive in that it permeates every aspect of the lives of people of color. To end systemic racism<\/a>, we have to, first and foremost, acknowledge that racism is perpetuated on the institutional level. Because different parts of the system are propping each other up, if we pull out enough of the foundations, the whole ugly thing will collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading for some ways that you can contribute to collective efforts to end systemic racism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

To End Systemic Racism, First Acknowledge It<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When we acknowledge racism as systemic, it gives us many more ways to end oppression on the grounds of race. When we acknowledge racism as systemic, we illuminate those innocuous or private beliefs and emotions that feed this system. Without these usually invisible parts, the most damaging, extreme parts of the system couldn\u2019t survive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system isn\u2019t \u201cout there\u201d where we can\u2019t reach it. It\u2019s made up of the small and large decisions we all make every day. Therefore, to put an end to systemic racism, we have to closely examine which behaviors (or lack of thereof) may be feeding this white supremacist ugly system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n