That's my big contribution; I'm usually a pretty safe person for other white people to talk to, and I've more than once expressed to friends of color that many many white people have NEVER talked about some of this stuff before.
I did find out that a POC at work is a huge comics fan (and I was dorkily surprised by it, which I thought was funny) and I made him promise to tell me tomorrow what he thought of the Watchman movie! So, I guess now I can include 'encourage fannish interest in friends of color' in my strategy.
Part of what's been uncomfortable for me in all of this is that in some key demographic ways, none of these clueless people seem that different from me - it's easy to think everything is about People Like You if most people you know are People Like You.
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Date: 2009-03-06 09:27 am (UTC)That's my big contribution; I'm usually a pretty safe person for other white people to talk to, and I've more than once expressed to friends of color that many many white people have NEVER talked about some of this stuff before.
I did find out that a POC at work is a huge comics fan (and I was dorkily surprised by it, which I thought was funny) and I made him promise to tell me tomorrow what he thought of the Watchman movie! So, I guess now I can include 'encourage fannish interest in friends of color' in my strategy.
Part of what's been uncomfortable for me in all of this is that in some key demographic ways, none of these clueless people seem that different from me - it's easy to think everything is about People Like You if most people you know are People Like You.