The World Without Racism: A Self- Help Guide

By Eleadah R. Clack

Learn how to defeat Racism in this how-to-guide. In The World Without Racism we attempt to solve one of society's biggest problems. Using targeted unlearning, practice and awareness we work step by step to smash Racism.

The author, delivers readers to a space of freedom and justice. By the end of The World Without Racism readers will have a new awareness of Racism in their everyday lives. You'll have tools for undoing the racism around us. By implementing these tactics you join the movement of anti-Racism and the winning team.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eleadah R. Clack
• Release date: Aug 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9780692773383

Eleadah R. Clack

Eleadah R. is the Author of The World Without Racism; A How-to Guide for White Culture. Eleadah earned her Master’s in Sociology in 2014, and went on to work with various community organizing groups in New York City. She now lives in Maryland. You can find more of her work at WRITETHEWORLDFREE.com

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Acknowledgements


Chapter 1 Why You

Chapter 2 A Brief History of Racism

Chapter 3 Unlearning

Chapter 4 Family and Relationships

Chapter 5 Vision

Chapter 6 Practice

Chapter 7 Work and Collective Organizing

About the Author

Reference

Acknowledgements

First I would like to thank everyone who helped this project along at various stages of completeness and conversation. I’d like to thank everyone who encouraged me as an author, researcher and dreamer to think anything is possible. I’d like to thank my Uncle Herek for gifting me with the ISBN number. I’d like to thank The Future Foundation who not only sponsored the first book release event in 2016, and who holds space in my heart for showing me that failure is also threat.

Thank you Soph, and Princess, and Chriss, Thank you, Nathalie, for editing and being good friends. My parents I would like to thank for their continued support. I’d like to thank each of my chapter editors. This book is a dedication to Rob and Melanie Bush who taught me sociology and showed me the kind of elegance and grace that I think justice embodies.

To friends and family not otherwise mentioned. Thank you for seeing so much in me and for believing in me. Thank you for encouraging my dreams and helping me to set goals. If you are part of my life I appreciate you.

I hope and pray that everyone who reads The World Without Racism will consider himself or herself changed for the better by it. I thank all of you who had faith enough to pick this book out of millions. Thank you for seeing the vision. I grant you speed and power on your journey.

Eleadah R. Clack

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Why You: an Introduction

Hi, welcome to the most intense how-to guide you will ever pick up. Can I start by saying; I'm actually surprised that you picked this book. White people aren’t expected to do anything about racism. So I'm proud that you chose me reader. My name is Eleadah (pronounced Ah-Lay-Duh) and I’ll be helping you out through this book.

This is a book about racism, and specifically your role in undoing racism for the good of the world. I wrote this for you, because you can play a major role in undoing racism, if you have the proper tools and motivation. There are many benefits to a world without racism, but it's going to take a lot of hard work. And that's the curse. The gift, is that overall you are in a better place than me, to work towards the end of racism.

But we'll get into that soon enough. I wanted to write this book for you, because I believe in your power, and I believe you've been abusing it. White privilege and male privilege are unbelievable powers in our current society. They come with so many benefits and rewards, not too much responsibility, and every opportunity to shine and succeed. It's been abused for about as long as it has been around in the world. The consequences of white privilege, white supremacy and male supremacy have been capitalism, poverty, rape and environmental disaster, all over the world.

It's time for you to change this pattern. As part of the human family, white men play just as important a role as all other family members in ensuring the evolution of the human race.

However, due to historic circumstances, the benefits derived from holding status as a white male have been restricted from every other member of the human family. As an individual you are equipped and trained to distance yourself from this violence, but the humanity in you has suffered. None of us can watch destruction of humanity and be unaffected.

It's time to be real with you, Racism is a drug, an infection and picking up this book means you’re ready to get clean. Picking up this book is a declaration of your common sense, your vulnerability, your imperfection, your humanity. You choose this book, out of the thousands of others available to you for a reason. Because I've promised some solutions, some changes if you read it. The contract we're making here in this book, means you really can't live with the oppression and distortion all around you. It means you're considering yourself and your future tied up with those around you who are suffering because of racism, and all the other isms and oppressions. This book, is nothing without your implementation.

I humbly meet you at that moment of realization, and this book isn't here to tear you down, to make you bow down or to feel bad. The intention behind this book is one of unification, one of prosperity, ideology, future and global self-interest. That's right, this book is the most selfish thing I've ever done. I wrote it as a gift to myself as much as it's a gift to you. As a black, queer, woman, I’ve lived the oppression in my life. But this is not just my manifesto. This is humanity under one umbrella. If you can connect with the perspective presented here, we've all truly accomplished something wonderful.

End Games

Times are dire. The end is near. The waters are rising. The heat is unbearable. There might be walkers, there might be tornados, cyclones, and typhoons.

Maybe there will just widespread fear and corruption. Maybe it keeps getting worse. The future is ultimately ours, yours, to decide.

Welcome to The World Without Racism.

Without racism our world is beautiful, safe and secure. Our societies flourish, we are a human family that values humanity. We are a human species that nurtures itself.

Right now we’re at a crossroads of choice. We can choose to destroy ourselves with our apathy and uncertainty, or we can flourish into the ideal and apex of humanity.

Humanity constantly reassesses its path, at every boom and technological advancement there is a subsequent social crux.

The Race to End White Supremacy

Let’s put all the cards on the table.

The human family is strained beyond recognition. When you go out into the world there is less a sense of ‘we’re all in this together’ and more a sense of YOLO or every man for himself. That’s because of the social choices we keep making.

In general, the social leaders, political leaders, cultural leaders, financial foreseers, CEOS have led the way with money and profit being foremost on their minds. This is nothing new. Since the time before industrialism there have been groups of society looking out only for their own best interest.

It’s time to change that. Because the truth is more ominous than we’d like to truly believe. Remember Pacific Rim? The Day After Tomorrow? Those movies tap into some of our collective feelings of impending doom for a reason.

Scientists estimate that 3.7 million Americans live within a few feet of high tide which is particularly dangerous considering the swelling of the world’s oceans. Yes, the effects will likely be less dramatic than portrayed in the movies but devastating nonetheless.

Why is nothing being done about this? Do we just not care?

The overall apathy is indicative of much deeper structural and social problems in our world. The reasons politicians and government officials can’t do anything to prevent coastal flooding soon to come because of our own negligence about environmental issues, is because we lack a preventive mindset.

We don’t have the capacity to think preventatively because the majority of the world is so focused on survival—trying to get by on less than a dollar a day, trying to pay off credit cards, car notes, working more hours for less pay and benefits. We can’t afford think about what the world will be like in five or ten years because we literally don’t have the emotional or financial capacity. Most Americans are behind in saving for retirement, biased to optimism, in denial, and won’t fathom the current course to world-wide calamity¹.

If we’re being realistic this is probably the darkest human timeline.

Human evolution was basically a crapshoot and we lost. We’re nowhere near our potential, as projected by movies. In the 50s we began imagining reality video games, outer-space tourism, satellite TV, space living, and fantastic machines that create everything from food to fashion out of thin air.

Of course, as I’m writing and you’re reading this we can’t be sure we’re not too late to achieve some of these feats. But we know we’re nowhere near what we were promised for future; power laces, food in pill form, hover crafts, cryogenics, self-aware talking computers, clones, robots that took care of all our life minutia.

What happened to that vision of utopia? It pervaded the 90s and the 60s, and the when the internet took off our world seemed to be going in that direction. Where did we lose our momentum? Now we’re experiencing plagues of old instead; unclean drinking water, new viruses and outbreaks of Ebola, and shortages of everything from water shortages to extreme acts of violence. Not to mention we’re still fighting global hunger.

As a human family we’ve been through the trenches; two world wars, Hitler, multiple economic tragedies, UFOS, chattel slavery, genocide, military invasions, natural disaster after disaster. You’d think we would have banded together by now?

In light of all we’ve been through, you’d think we be tired of fighting. But it continues, day in and day out on this planet, humans are trudging along the same grooves of the same record of death. No one feels the need to break out- lest we hear the screech heard round the world. Even more depressing, no one feels heard, seen, connected. On an individual scale, how much do you feel connected and understood by the people around you?

This human disconnection leads to intense negative feelings, driving us further into this hole. Insecurity, jealousy, negativity.

In some ways we already believe we are doomed; either because we deserve it or because it’s meant to be. In some ways we’ve relinquished our responsibility to shape the world around us. In some ways we’ve lost the connection to our survival instinct.

Saving the World

Saving the world requires a new mindset that should take years and years to develop but is running against the clock. In essence unless we join together as a unit, we won’t survive the coming changes that are already too late to reverse. And one big glaring fact is stopping us from seeing the big picture.

Racism prevents us from ever being able to make effective changes and save ourselves. It’s the interminable danger, even more dangerous combined with the worst of our yet to come global warming effects.

Because we see racism as the problem of individuals, a problem that will go away on its own, a non-issue, we can’t take seriously the ripple effect problems that racism has created.

We’ll go into much more detail further along in this book, about how racism creates and sustains bigger problems like global warming.

Right now, what we need is a super hero.

It seems brilliant that superhero movies are among the top-grossing films in American culture, with reboots and remakes abound. This taps also into our collective need for saviors.

Our world is so divided on ‘the issues’, that infighting, and politics take up most of our energy. WE need a dedicated hero, to battle our most pressing issues for us, with nothing but the muscle of morality, goodness and virtue to power them.

But unfortunately, super heroes with superhuman powers and abilities don’t exist. They are made up stories, created to assuage our feelings of helplessness and apathy. The stories we tell ourselves about our heroes and our disasters, shape our time in history, shape our individual destinies and our collective demise or rise. If we believe someone will come and save us we don’t have to do anything but believe.

So, we don’t have superheroes. We can paint a bleak picture with no hope, and subsequently fall into the predestination of apocalypse. We can paint a joyous picture