In my post on Monday, I mentioned that I saw a need to support BIPOC led groups and that I would talk more about that. This is from the first of three Facebook posts where I talk about diversity, where it’s important and where it’s not, and how we can actually support BIPOC led alternatives, rather than trying to make our communities look more diverse simply to assuage white guilt.
Here is what I wrote in the post:
I thought that I said some controversial things in this post (and others in this series) and was surprised at how positive the comments were. Here’s what people said in response to what I wrote:
On Friday, I will post on when diversity is important.
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[…] Obviously, I want something that’s kinder to people (all people!) as well as to the environment/ecology/earth. I also want something with a lot less inequity. Beyond that? I want to see a world that delights in diversity, and that creates abundance, not scarcity. As adrienne maree brown put it as the final element of her Emergent Strategy, we need to be “Creating More Possibilities”. David Holmgren, one of the founders of permaculture, talks about twelve basic principles. “Use and Value Diversity” is number ten. Another permaculturist, Ben Falk, at one point listed seventy-two ‘directives’, one of which is “Increase Diversity, Don’t Reduce It.” I have also written that I am more interested in a diversity of communities than having diversity within a community. […]
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