It’s hard to see racism when you’re white - Un-Fair Campaign in Duluth Minnesota

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Racism is an issue that we don’t like talking about. The Un-Fair Campaign was developed to look at racism and to encourage a community dialogue about the causes and solutions.

Racism is a complex social issue and depending upon what you see as the causes of racism you have ideas about the solutions.

We invite you to spend time on this website and to ask yourself how you may be part of the problem as well as part of the solution.

See it. Know it. Stop it.

There are 15 campaign partners to date. They include:

Central Labor Body
Churches United in Ministry (CHUM)
City of Duluth Mayor’s Office
City of Duluth American Indian Commission
City of Duluth Human Rights Commission
Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Inc.
Community Action Duluth
Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs
Lake Superior College
Life House
NAACP
St. Louis County Public Health and Human Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
University of Wisconsin Superior
YWCA

http://unfaircampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Un-Fair_Poster_8x11-2.pdf - I Am A White Man poster

http://unfaircampaign.org/

The campaign is using controversial billboards to generate discussion about race and racism in Duluth which is 90% white.

[izquierdista]

1. Not if you are observant

My own story from 25 years ago: I went into a grocery store in the South while I was on a business trip there to get a couple things for breakfast. Only one checkout line was open and there was a black woman in front of me with a moderate amount of groceries in her cart. Manager sitting in an elevated area notices that there is a white man dressed in business attire waiting behind a black woman and almost breaks his neck rushing to open another checkout. When he does, his apologies for me having to wait are out of all proportion to my inconvenience. The only conclusion to draw? The racist order had been upset and he was trying to put it right by me.

If you're not on the receiving end of racism, that doesn't mean it isn't there, it's just easier to be oblivious to it (as I could have been had I not thought about what just happened).

[Redstate Bluegirl]

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