DMF's Fundraising Page for Organizing to Win: Building Racial Justice with White Poor and Working Class Communities
BIrthday request from Danielle Morgan Feris --
Please join me and support a convening of poor and working class white movement leaders organizing for racial justice.
I am aiming to raise $500 by the end of today - my birthday! I donated $50, so if nine of my friends do the same, I'll meet my goal.
In this political moment, poor and working class white people are being scapegoated as the sole cause for the rise in white supremacy. In that context in particular, I'm asking my white class-privileged friends to join me and support poor and working class leadership in movements for racial justice.
Gratitude in advance.
MORE INFO:
Recent political events have made clear that white people need to do more and do better in movements for racial and economic justice. In this moment, when many are falsely blaming poor and working class white people as the sole cause for the rise of white supremacy, those of us who are white and class privileged must step up to support anti-racist white poor and working-class leadership.
Political pundits and the media are scapegoating the rise of white supremacists on poor, rural, and white voters. While white working-class voters in rural areas make up some of Trump’s base, exit polls show that the average Trump voter tended to have a higher median income and a college degree. Placing blame for systemic racism on the white working class both erases white working class progressivism and deflects attention away from the more wealthy and politically powerful architects of white supremacy.
If we’re going to successfully stop Trump, fight global racism, and build an equitable system for the 99% rather than the 1%, we must stop scapegoating the white working class. Instead, progressive movements, and particularly white people of privilege, need to engage with and learn from white working-class leaders and communities that have been leading progressive campaigns for economic, environmental, and health justice in Trump-like areas for decades.
The Catalyst Project has been organizing with poor and working class white communities for decades. In response to this political moment, on April 20th-23rd, Catalyst will convene 40 leaders from poor and working class white communities across the U.S. to share skills, strategy, and analysis about building racial justice.
Will you join me in supporting this convening of poor and working class white leaders who will vision and plan together to strengthen their ongoing work to fight white supremacy and forward racial justice?More info about the convening: http://collectiveliberation.org/convening/
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