Browsing posts in Racial Equity

Four Criteria for More Justice in COVID-19 Response Funds

By Justin Laing | March 21, 2020 | Critical Philanthropy

There are a number of funding programs for nonprofits coming from predominantly white led organizations in response to COVID-19, and the way systemic racial capitalism works, without a designed interruption it is a certainty these funds will benefit predominantly white led nonprofits. This is not to say the funds are… Read More >

American Composers Forum Racial Equity and Inclusion Forum: Pavielle

By Justin Laing | August 23, 2019 | Diversity Inclusion Equity

In a couple of weeks, I’ll get to go to Minneapolis to support the work of the American Composers Forum as a facilitator of their racial equity and inclusion forum. A part of this project will be a day with artists as they review a Statement of Commitment to Racial… Read More >

Think again. The Equality v. Equity slide

By Justin Laing | August 17, 2019 | Diversity Inclusion Equity

I am going to be moving to this page posts I’ve written in the past but did not make it over when I changed websites. This was written in 2016, but the slide recently came up in a project I was working on and so I am thinking it’s still… Read More >

On White Manhood Suffrage Laws

By Justin Laing | July 30, 2019 | Racial Capitalism

bell hooks is the person I associate with connecting how capital, whiteness and masculinity act in reinforcing ways and I’m getting better at sussing that out. Recently, reading How the White Race Was Invented by Theodore Allen, I came across a historical reference to “manhood suffrage” which, apparently, were the laws… Read More >